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No Nobel Prize for Philip Roth

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:25:23 GMT

A reader comments that the novels of Philip Roth pale in the international literary arena and that he does not deserve the Nobel Prize.
Source: The National Newspaper

Bad Sex in Fiction Awards: Read the Nominees and Our All-Time Top 10

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:22:21 GMT

It may not be the Nobel Prize, but the competition for this year’s “Bad Sex in Fiction” award is just as stiff (cringe — pun intended).
Source: Flavorwire

Stanton Peele: Great Artists Can Be Cads, But Can They Not Be?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:21:23 GMT

I posted recently about two exceptional women - Hannah Arendt and Amy Wallace - who slept with gurus - Martin Heidegger and Carlos Castaneda - who despised and mistreated them, and yet the women remained in love until the day their gurus died.
Source: Huffington Post

Performance Anxiety

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:19:43 GMT

In The Humbling, Philip Roth has created a three-act tragedy for famed stage actor Simon Axler, now in his mid-sixties.
Source: New Haven Review

Creative force

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:05:17 GMT

Philip Roth has experienced “an extraordinary late flowering”, David Mattin says. Richard Drew / AP Philip Roth must be accustomed by now to being called America’s greatest living writer.
Source: The National Newspaper

Tales from the Fulham book club, Bobby Charlton's barber shop tantrum and Millwall's autograph hunter

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:23:55 GMT

Always among the most cerebral of managers, Fulham's Roy Hodgson has excelled himself by issuing a list of his top 10 favourite novels which includes heavyweight authors like Milan Kundera, Herman Hesse, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Katie Price (one of...
Source: Mirror.co.uk

REVIEW: Philip Roth's The Humbling

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:42:03 GMT

Several decades after he wrote portnoys Complaint, hich shocked the literary establishment and put a generation of readers off eating liver, Roth, now in his late 70s, has thirty novels to his name.
Source: Daily Express

Philip Roth's 'The Humbling': an aging actor quits the stage

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:27:38 GMT

When the aging heroes of Philip Roth's late fiction succumb to despair, they seek redemption and renewal not through work, therapy, charity, fellowship or family but through an affair with a younger woman.
Source: The Seattle Times

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:09:37 GMT

These recent file photos show authors in the running for the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize, the winner of which is scheduled to beannounced on Thursday, October 8, 2009 in Stockholm.

Quoted in 'Joel and Ethan Coen: 'A Serious Man''

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:05:49 GMT

said in The Week:

If Philip Roth and Franz Kafka sat down to write an adaptation of the Book of Job ... the result might be something like A Serious Man.

Photo from AP Photo

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:42:40 GMT

In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin, in New York.

Interview with Philip Roth (Part 1)

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:00:50 GMT