Philip Roth

Who Will Star In The 'American Pastoral' Movie?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 05.31.2012

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It's finally, really happening. Philip Roth's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "American Pastoral," often considered the 79-year-old legend's mast...

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Why Is 'Portnoy's Complaint' Such An Enduring Novel?

Bernard Avishai | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Philip Roth Books, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Controversial Books, Banned Books, Books News

Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint was a prodigy's most sensational fiction, not coincidentally about a prodigiously articulate hero.

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WATCH: Is It Anti-Zionism Or Anti-Semitism?

Jacques Berlinerblau | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Hannah Rosenthal, Zionism, The Finkler Question, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Howard Jacobson, Philip Roth, The Counterlife, Judaism, Video, Religion News

One doesn't spend a quarter-century working in the American academy without coming across all manner of opinionated, irrational and overheated types. None more so than those whose out-of-class activism consists of lambasting the State of Israel.

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The Fiction That Fiction Is Fiction Is Fiction

Joan Marans Dim | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Fiction Writing, Kathryn Stockett, Philip Roth, Novel Writing, Kathryn Stockett the Help, Abilene Cooper, Novelists, Kathryn Stockett Lawsuit, Fiction, Books News

Must a novelist, whose task often is to mine the jumble of life's experiences, disguise plot and characters so that no one is offended? My answer is an emphatic "no."

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Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny

Dave Astor | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Terry McMillan, Humor in Novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Philip Roth, Books News

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is an epic tragedy that leaves readers shocked and awed. But, along the way, there are some delightfully funny interludes -- most notably the pre-voyage scene in which Ishmael and Queequeg end up in the same bedroom.

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Literature's Most Attractive (And Repellent) Leading Men

Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Word & Film, Literature, Leading Men, Jane Eyre, Jane Austen, Books We Love, Hamlet, Twilight, War and Peace, Philip Roth, Persuasion, Video, Books News

By Christine Spines via Word & Film Stephenie Meyer’s decision to produce “Austenland” — a film about a woman so obsessed with the taciturn...

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Writers Struggle To Out-Imagine 9/11

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Jess Walter, Writers 9/11, Martin Amis, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Charlotte's Web, Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, Amy Waldman, Books News

NEW YORK -- Ten years later, and our imaginations are still catching up to Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't think art can `compete' with something like 9/11,...

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She Resigned As Judge When Philip Roth Won The Booker But She Likes This Novel

The Guardian | Carmen Callil | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Sarah Death, The Emperor of Lies, Steve Sem-Sandberg, Lodz, Carmen Callil, Man Booker Prize, Nazis, Philip Roth, Books News

The Emperor of Lies is a novel about horrific historical fact, the Holocaust as experienced by the Jews of the Polish ghetto of Lodz. A bestseller in ...

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Picking Favorites: Books That Make Me Sigh With Satisfaction

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 09.05.2011

A great book happens when I pick up a book and can't put it down again; when I cannot suppress the sighs upon finishing it; when I cannot wait to tell everyone I know: read this book! But how to pick a favorite?

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10 Manly Books To Honor Ernest Hemingway’s Death

Kathleen Massara | Posted 09.01.2011

Read More: Fight Club, Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway Death, Chandler, Ernest Hemingway Suicide, Atlas Shrugged, The Sun Also Rises, Philip Roth, Raymond, Books News

From Flavorwire: Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s death. Say what you will about the man, but he was a literary force o...

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Do You Still Read Fiction?

Lev Raphael | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Authors, Book Publishing, Books, Fiction, Novels, Biographies, Historical Fiction, Philip Roth, Booker Prize, The Gilded Age, Biography, Book Reviews, Reviewing, Roth on Fiction, Phillip Roth Fiction, Books News

Philip Roth has written two dozen novels, yet fiction has lost its appeal for him personally. When asked why, he said he didn't know, and only offered a smart-aleck response: "I wised up."

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Which Other Authors Should Have Literary Towns Built In Their Honor?

newyorker.com | Posted by Ian Crouch | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Ivo Andric, Herman Melville, Philip Roth, Andricgrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Literary Towns, Books News

Over the years, several of the countries that made up the former Yugoslavia—and the ethnic groups within them, including Serbs and Croats—have cla...

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Philip Roth Confesses The Genre He Never Reads

Slate Magazine | Jan Dalley | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Philip Roth Interview, Man Booker International Prize, Goodbye Columbus, Philip Roth, Fiction, Pulitzer Prize, Books News

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

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Diana Athill's Response To The VS Naipaul Attack

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Royal Geographic Society, Jean Rhys, Jane Austen, Paul Theroux, Derek Walcott, Margaret Atwood, Diana Athill, John Updike, Vs Naipaul, Philip Roth, Books News

Former publisher rubbished by Naipaul for writing 'feminine tosh' says she is not taking his criticism seriously. ...

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Infallible Israel

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Israel, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, End Times, Apocalypse, Barack Obama, Gaza, West Bank, Christian Right, Israel's Nuclear Weapons, Tony Kushner, US Israel Relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, Aipac, Woody Allen, World News

Israel is no more. Its cities lay in ruins, its people wallow in oppression. All signs of Jewish presence in the Holy Land are being eradicated: synag...

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Philip Roth Didn't Deserve Booker Prize

Anis Shivani | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Nobel Prize, Horace Engdahl, Carmen Callil, Booker International Prize, Philip Roth, Booker Prize, American Authors, Literary Prizes, Booker Prize Controversy, Books News

"There is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the center of the literary world...not th...

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Philip Roth Wins Man Booker Prize, Judge Quits In Protest (POLL)

Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Authors, Bestsellers, Booker Prize Controversy, Booker Judge Quits, Literary Prizes, Carmen Callil, Man Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Philip Roth, Books News

Philip Roth was awarded The Man Booker Prize , it was announced this morning on the prize's website. The prize is worth close to $100,000. The Guardia...

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Far From the Flames, I Empathize With David Foster Wallace in The Pale King

Tom Ruprecht | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Philip Roth, Infinite Jest, Woody Allen, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Books News

Friends of Wallace have already expressed worry that the author's suicide will affect how readers experience his posthumous The Pale King. I agree that it will. But is that really the reader's fault? And is it necessarily a bad thing?

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2011 Man Booker International Prize Finalists Announced

themanbookerprize.com | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Sydney Writers' Festival, John Le Carre, Literary Prizes, Man Booker International Prize, Philip Roth, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Pullman, Man Booker International Prize Finalists, Books News

The Finalists' List was announced by the chair of judges, Rick Gekoski at a press conference held at the University of Sydney, on Wednesday 30 March 2...

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Looking For Great Books For Your LIbrary? Try 4 Decades Of NBCC Winners (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Images, Toni Morrison, Ian McEwan, Literary Prizes, Nbcc, National Book Critics Circle, Cormac McCarthy, Slidepollajax, Philip Roth, Books News

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been around since the 1970s and the winners over the decades make an impressive recommended readin...

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President Obama To Award 20 Arts And Humanities Medals

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philip Roth, Harper Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, National Medal of Arts, Barack Obama, President Obama, Literary Prizes, National Humanities Medal, Books News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is to award the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to 20 people Wednesday in the White...

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Dirty Old (Literary) Men: Writing's Filthiest Perverted Geniuses

flavorwire.com | Nina MacLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Literature, Henry Miller, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Bukowski, Geoffery Chaucer, Philip Roth, John Updike, Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, Dirty Old Men, Books News

There has been a lot of talk about books and sex in this space lately, and it's not just because of yesterday's holiday. Anyone who has taken English ...

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Philosophy And A J.D. Salinger Biography

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Reviews, Book Review Roundup, C.J. Sansom, You Know When the Men Are Gone, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, Reviews, Books News

"Examined Lives" by James Miller New York Times Few readers will be astounded to learn that philosophers make as much of a mess of their lives as an...

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It's Not The Illness That Stands To Destroy You

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philip Roth Review, Jewish Novels, Jewish Literature, Jewish Books, Philip-Roth-Nemesis, Philip Roth, Philip Roth Novels, Books News

It was the summer of 1944 and with the world at war America's youth were not only endangered by the pitch of battle in Europe and the Pacific.

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The Real Thing: Saul Bellow Off the Record

David Galenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Experimental Innovator, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Letters, Spanish Civil War, Leslie Fiedler, Victoria Lidov, Camus, The Plague, Ezra Pound, Arts News

Bellow's recently published Letters give us a generous sampling of the literary judgments of a great writer, with private assessments of his own work -- as well as that of others.

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