Former President Barack Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Philip Roth in 2011. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images A bestselling biography of late novelist Philip Roth has been yanked by its ...
Philip Roth describes his admiration for Saul Bellow in Roth's final interview. In this outtake from "The Adventures of Saul Bellow," Philip Roth describes his friendship with and admiration for ...
Much has changed in recent weeks. Last month, Bailey’s publisher, W.W. Norton, announced that it was halting promotion and distribution of the book after Bailey was accused of grooming, and in one ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a new, bestselling biography about Philip Roth has temporarily halted the book’s shipping and promotion as its author, Blake Bailey, faces multiple allegations of ...
During a vacation trip to the Berkshires, at a library sale in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I stumbled across a copy of “Zuckerman Bound,” a thick paperback that collects three of Roth’s novels: “The ...
A 90th birthday event in the late author’s honor is an occasion to remember his gifts and his failings, writes a Georgetown University scholar. Roth was being acclaimed for having just wound down an ...
UPDATE: The following story was written before a remarkable series of events played out around “Philip Roth: The Biography.” Nearly a month after release, publisher W.W. Norton & Co. temporarily ...
Philip Roth left Newark, but it never left him. The young author with Allegra the cat, Manhattan, 1959. (Courtesy of Philip Roth Estate) As soon as he could, Roth fled the brash, blue-collar city.
How is it possible a writer of Philip Roth’s stature could live through his slice of American history —Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the ’60s; 30 years of widely-distributed growth followed ...
Late in his life, Philip Roth occasionally joked that he had two great calamities ahead of him: death and a biography. “Let’s hope the first comes first,” he said in a 2013 interview. Roth, the author ...
Ten years ago, at Philip Roth’s urging, his agent, Andrew Wylie, informed the literary critic and academic Ira Nadel “that he didn’t have permission to quote from Roth’s work, nor would any of Roth’s ...
2:06 p.m. March 31, 2021An earlier version of this article misquoted Bailey twice, first by omitting quotation marks around “bitch of a wife” — those were Roth’s words — and second by stating “actual ...
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