Humboldt’s Gift

"I read “Humboldt” again a few months ago, and I was amazed by how clearly I remembered it. Nobody writes like that anymore — maybe Michael Chabon."

"I was obsessed with his work in my 20s, with the glamour and burnish of his lines and with his knack, in a novel like Humboldt's Gift, for writing about lowlifes in the high style."

"“Humboldt’s Gift,” by Saul Bellow, which seems to be on the night stand more or less permanently."