Scott Saul

is Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches American literary and cultural history. His most recent book is Becoming Richard Pryor (HarperCollins).

Contributions

The Strange Career of Joan Didion, Cop Hater

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December 9, 2025

“‘On Becoming a Cop Hater’ remains the only one of Didion’s Saturday Evening Post columns never republished in her essay collections. Why did she choose to shed it?” —Scott Saul

A Theater of the Absurd Brought to Life: Gavin Lambert

Scott Saul

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October 20, 2024

“Lambert's vision of the city—which drew out the incongruities and refused to lampoon them—helped him become one of the great chroniclers of LA” —Scott Saul