NEW YORK -- Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of "Portnoy's Complaint" to the elegiac lyricism of "American ...
These words, written 28 years ago in the pages of “Sabbath’s Theater,” rang with certainty when read aloud by actor Peter Riegert on Friday night at NJPAC’s Victoria Theater; but their recitation, as ...
Author Philip Roth is as synonymous with New Jersey as Bruce Springsteen, diners and "Sopranos" memes. So it makes perfect sense that this weekend, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center will present ...
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 ...
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 ...
Author Philip Roth says his latest novel, Exit Ghost, is also his last one about Nathan Zuckerman. The character was 23 when Roth began writing... Author Says New Zuckerman Novel to be the Last Author ...
Library of America. 671 pp. $35Here we have, in two volumes encompassing nearly 1,600 pages, the first six books by Philip Roth, originally published between 1959 and 1972, the books of Roth's youth ...
As the pieces of the upcoming 'American Pastoral' movie fall into place, Ewan McGregor's casting isn't the only oft-repeated mistake this movie is making. Now seems as good a time as any to remind ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American novelist Philip Roth dislikes e-books and the distracting influences of modern technology, which he feels diminishes the ability to appreciate the beauty and aesthetic ...
Writers, like the rest of us, are entitled to slow down when they approach retirement age. What Philip Roth did, as he began anticipating the popularly euphemistic Golden Years, was to gun his engine ...
Winning this year's Man Booker International Prize came as a mixed blessing for Philip Roth, said Julie Bosman in The New York Times. Roth, 78, won $100,000 along with the citation, and the British ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Philip Roth was an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Ceremony. The year with the highest average number of views per program ...