Cancelled Philip Roth biography finds a new publisher while author is accused of sexual assault
The latest in a long line of books being dropped amidst moral scandal is Blake Bailey’s new biography of Philip Roth. Published last month in the US, Philip Roth: The Biography hit… Read more »
Phillip Roth left a substantial part of his estate to the Newark Public Library
In heartwarming bit of library news, famed, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Phillip Roth has left $2 million of his $10 million estate to the Newark Public Library, the Wall Street Journal reports.… Read more »
Philip Roth’s upper west side apartment is now on the market
When a beloved (or controversial) literary icon dies, there are a few ways of keeping our connection with them alive. You can often commune with them through Melville House’s Last… Read more »
Maybe we can blame the canon for the incel rebellion?
A little more than a month ago, Alek Minassian murdered ten people in Toronto in an effort to advance the “incel rebellion” — a movement among extremist members of the… Read more »
For the love of a good Philip Roth cover
Philip Roth died last week at the age of eighty-four, leaving behind an undeniable legacy. Roth was huge, and helped launch the “big time literary author” trope into the pop culture… Read more »
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel — good news for Ishiguro fans, bad news for Atwood fans, complicated news for Ursula Le Guin
The world has a new Nobel laureate in literature. Some people are excited, some people are pissed, and some people just went to see The Book of Mormon. On Thursday,… Read more »
Philip Roth sits with his agent: A modest vignette
The morning of Thursday, October 5, 2017. Philip Roth sits across from his longtime literary agent Andrew Wiley. At eighty-four years old, Roth is once again considered a top contender… Read more »
When She Was Ambivalent: Lena Dunham, Girls, and Philip Roth
Look carefully through the narrative forestry in HBO’s Girls, and you’ll see Philip Roth lurking through the underbrush, like a lumbering, erect Sasquatch. Our first sighting occurred last season when… Read more »
“I knew that this would someday be a funny story”
Because it’s Valentine’s Day and also the seventy-third birthday of Carl Bernstein, Watergate reporter, Hillary Clinton ghost writer, and CNN commentator, why not reprint some of his ex-wife Nora Ephron’s last interview, discussing their… Read more »
Philip Roth is donating his private book collection to the Newark Public Library
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award–winning author Philip Roth is donating his collection of 4,000 books to Newark Public Library, the writer’s “other home” while he was a student at… Read more »