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100 | 1 | ▼aRoth, Philip.▲ | |
245 | 1 | 0 | ▼aWhy write? :▼bcollected nonfiction, 1960-2013 /▼cPhilip Roth.▲ |
246 | 3 | ▼aPhilip Roth, why write?▲ | |
260 | ▼aNew York :▼bThe Library of America,▼c2017.▲ | ||
300 | ▼axiii, 452 p. :▼bill. ;▼c21 cm.▲ | ||
490 | 0 | ▼aThe Library of America ;▼v300▲ | |
500 | ▼aEdition statement from book jacket back cover.▲ | ||
504 | ▼aIncludes bibliographical references 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 Klíma ;▼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 --▼gChronology.▲ |
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.▲ |
Why write? : collected nonfiction, 1960-2013
Document Type
Foreign Book
Title
Why write? : collected nonfiction, 1960-2013 / Philip Roth.
Various title
Philip Roth, why write?
Author
Publication
New York : The Library of America , 2017.
Physical Description
xiii, 452 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series Title
The Library of America ; 300
General Note
Edition statement from book jacket back cover.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
From Reading myself and others. "I always wanted you to admire my fasting," or, Looking at Kafka ; Writing American fiction ; New Jewish stereotypes ; Writing about Jews ; On Portnoy's complaint ; In response to those who have asked me : How did you come to write that book, anyway? ; Imagining Jews ; Writing and the powers that be ; After eight books ; Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur ; Interview with the London Sunday Times ; Interview with the Paris Review ; Interview on Zuckerman -- Shop talk : a writer and his colleagues and their work. Conversation in Turin with Primo Levi ; Conversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld ; Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma ; Conversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz ; Conversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera ; Conversation in London with Edna O'Brien ; An exchange with Mary McCarthy ; Pictures of Malamud ; Pictures by Guston ; Rereading Saul Bellow -- Explanations. Juice or gravy? ; Patrimony ; Yiddish/English ; "I have fallen in love with American names" ; My Uchronia ; Eric Duncan ; Errata ; "Tyranny is better organized than freedom" ; A Czech education ; The primacy of Ludus ; Interview on The ghost writer ; Interview with Svenska Dagbladet ; Forty-five years on ; The ruthless intimacy of fiction -- Chronology.
Summary Note
"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.
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