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050 _aPS3568 .O855
_bA6 2017
100 1 _aRoth, Philip,
240 1 0 _aWorks.
_kSelections
245 1 0 _aWhy write? :
_bcollected nonfiction, 1960-2013 /
_cPhilip Roth.
246 3 _aPhilip Roth, why write?
246 1 8 _aCollected nonfiction, 1960-2013
250 _aThe Library of America edition.
264 1 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bThe Library of America,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _axiii, 452 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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490 0 _aThe Library of America ;
_v300
500 _aEdition statement from book jacket spine.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 422-436) and index.
505 0 0 _tFrom Reading myself and others.
_t"I always wanted you to admire my fasting," or, Looking at Kafka ;
_tWriting American fiction ;
_tNew Jewish stereotypes ;
_tWriting about Jews ;
_tOn Portnoy's complaint ;
_tIn response to those who have asked me : How did you come to write that book, anyway? ;
_tImagining Jews ;
_tWriting and the powers that be ;
_tAfter eight books ;
_tInterview with Le Nouvel Observateur ;
_tInterview with the London Sunday Times ;
_tInterview with the Paris Review ;
_tInterview on Zuckerman --
_tShop talk : a writer and his colleagues and their work.
_tConversation in Turin with Primo Levi ;
_tConversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld ;
_tConversation in Prague with Ivan KliÌma ;
_tConversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz ;
_tConversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera ;
_tConversation in London with Edna O'Brien ;
_tAn exchange with Mary McCarthy ;
_tPictures of Malamud ;
_tPictures by Guston ;
_tRereading Saul Bellow --
_tExplanations.
_tJuice or gravy? ;
_tPatrimony ;
_tYiddish/English ;
_t"I have fallen in love with American names" ;
_tMy Uchronia ;
_tEric Duncan ;
_tErrata ;
_t"Tyranny is better organized than freedom" ;
_tA Czech education ;
_tThe primacy of Ludus ;
_tInterview on The ghost writer ;
_tInterview with Svenska Dagbladet ;
_tForty-five years on ;
_tThe ruthless intimacy of fiction --
_gChronolgy.
520 _a"Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary body of nonfiction writing on a wide range of topics: his own work and that of the writers he admires, the creative process, and the state of American culture. This work is collected for the first time in Why Write?, the tenth and final volume in the Library of America's definitive Philip Roth edition. Here is Roth's selection of the indispensable core of Reading Myself and Others, the entirety of the 2001 book Shop Talk, and "Explanations," a collection of fourteen later pieces brought together here for the first time, six never before published. Among the essays gathered are "My Uchronia," an account of the genesis of The Plot Against America, a novel grounded in the insight that "all the assurances are provisional, even here in a two-hundred-year-old democracy"; "Errata," the unabridged version of the "Open Letter to Wikipedia" published on The New Yorker's website in 2012 to counter the online encyclopedia's egregious errors about his life and work; and "The Ruthless Intimacy of Fiction," a speech delivered on the occasion of his eightieth birthday that celebrates the "refractory way of living" of Sabbath's Theater's Mickey Sabbath. Also included are two lengthy interviews given after Roth's retirement, which take stock of a lifetime of work."--Amazon.
600 1 0 _aRoth, Philip.
650 0 _aAuthorship.
650 0 _aLiterature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y21st century.
655 7 _aEssays.
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