High Theory and Low Seriousness

[David Morris]

https://quillette.com/2019/02/15/high-theory-and-low-seriousness/

Sixty years ago today, just as *Henderson the Rain King*
<https://www.amazon.com/Henderson-Rain-King-Saul-Bellow/dp/B000WY5VOO/> was
going to print, Saul Bellow penned an article for the *New York Times*
<https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/bellow-symbol.html>
in
which he warned against the perils of deep reading.