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At Home With Philip Roth: The Author Confesses He Never Reads Fiction.

Philip Roth

First Posted: 06/27/11 06:21 PM ET Updated: 08/27/11 06:12 AM ET

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Slate Magazine:

In 1960 Philip Roth won the National Book Award, America's prestigious literary prize, for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus.

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Warren Mart
Why can't we be friends
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10:59 PM on 06/27/2011
I thought he was dead--is he?
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Quinny
My micro-bio has been seized by the Feds
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09:44 PM on 06/27/2011
"I don't read fiction any more...I wised up.."

That makes two of us Mr. Roth....

Selah
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