Saul Bellow wrote descriptive sentences full of verbal energy which were in stark contrast with Ernest Hemingway's simple, declarative sentences. "The Adventures of Saul Bellow" premieres Monday, December 12 at 8/7c on PBS. [VID: Interviews with experts. Transcript: What he did is he blew the lid off of the sentence. The lid had been put on by Hemingway. Hemingway was the reigning master of the American sentence. Hemingway had stripped away all the stuffing that had gotten into the American sent

"American Masters: The Adventures of Saul Bellow" illuminates how the Montreal native transformed modern literature and navigated through the issues of his time, including race, gender and the Jewish immigrant experience, through rare archival footage and interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and many others. Monday, December 12th at 8PM on Mountain Lake PBS. | Mountain Lake PBS