HERZOG'S HYPERTEXT

If you missed it yesterday, take a moment and listen to Jeffrey Eugenides' fine appreciation of Saul Bellow's luminous Herzog on NPR.  His nuanced appraisal of this masterpiece includes an astute comparison to hypertext:

Herzog goes from New York, to Martha's Vineyard, to Chicago, to the Berkshires, penning his funny, serious, brilliant, self-lacerating, accusatory letters, each one acting like a new screen in a hypertext novel that opens an entirely different piece of his life: his immigrant chi