Seize the Day Resources
Websites
Short, sweet, and to the point—much like Seize the Day!
Movie or TV Productions
Robin Williams stars as Wilhelm and Jerry Stiller plays Dr. Tamkin in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel.
Articles and Interviews
In this short review, Alfred Kazin states memorably that the novel is about "the transparency of human weakness."
To quote one of the funeral-goers who watches Wilhelm sob his heart out in Seize the Day: "Oh my, oh my! To be mourned like that." (7.104)
In which James Wood writes that Seize the Day "is perhaps the most Russian novella ever written in America."
Realism, anti-intellectualism, and human nature: Saul Bellow has thoughtful things to say about them all!
In conversation with Sven Birkerts, Saul Bellow discusses the writing life, American fiction, and mass media in America today.
Five years after Saul Bellow's death, Janis Bellow chats about life with the Nobel Laureate.
Video
Saul Bellow describes his life as a young immigrant boy in Chicago in the 1920s.
After reading from Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow fields questions from the crowd.
Audio
Featuring a brief history of his writing life, and some choice quotes from the man himself.
An excerpt of the lecture Saul Bellow delivered after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976.
Images
The man knew how to rock the plaid.
Less plaid, more laugh lines.
The first edition of the book.
For those who like to judge the plots of books by their covers.
For those who like their symbolism more abstract.
Robin Williams: lookin' sharp, and keepin' it cool.
Help us out here, Shmoopers: are those mushrooms on his tie, or shrimp?