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

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). Full Article at Flavorwire

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. Full Article at Huffington Post

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

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. Full Article at The National Newspaper

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... Full Article at Mirror.co.uk

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. Full Article at Daily Express

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. Full Article at The Seattle Times

NOVELS about elderly men having initially energising but ultimately catastrophic affairs with much younger women have become a distinct new genre in recent years. Full Article at The Scotsman

Philip Roth, in his mid-70s now, is publishing a book a year. Yes, they are short – the newest, The Humbling, is 140 small pages with generous spacing – but it still means a book a year. Roth has apparently already delivered next year's release. Full Article at Globe and Mail

British magazine the Literary Review has announced the shortlist of finalists for its Bad Sex Award. Full Article at Los Angeles Times

Philip Roth has been the most enthralling American writer of the past 25 years. As a result his readers expect a masterpiece every time. Roth does not always deliver one but he doesnt always try to. His new novel is very short and limited in scope. Full Article at Daily Express

LONDON: Acclaimed American novelist Philip Roth has been shortlisted for the Bad Sex Award, alongside fellow-literary luminaries Amos Oz and Paul Theroux. Full Article at Times of India

El Cerrito Library — Events, 6510 Stockton Ave. , El Cerrito, 510-526-7512. Kensington Library — Events, Book group meetings, Nov. 23, "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens, Dec. 28, "Everyman" by Philip Roth, new members always welcome. Full Article at Inside Bay Area

Philip Roth's The Humbling "Roth can comfort himself with the fact that a roll call of literary fiction's great and good, from Booker winner John Banville to acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz, Goncourt winner Jonathan Littell and Whitbread winner... Full Article at ArtsJournal

Here's a particularly juicy passage from a previous nominee, "The Whole World Over" by Julia Glass. Full Article at mediabistro.com

Singer Nick Cave has joined Booker winner John Banville, Philip Roth and Paul Theroux on the shortlist for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction award…The annual prize, awarded by Literary Review magazine, focuses on “redundant passages of sexual description”. Full Article at The Daily Swarm

The Pulitzer Prize winner was shortlisted for the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2009 for his latest book, The Humbling - the story of the seduction of a "full breasted" lesbian by an ageing stage actor. Full Article at New Kerala

THE story of the seduction of a lesbian by an ageing stage actor, which includes an eye-watering scene with a green dildo, has won novelist Philip Roth the dubious honour of a place on the shortlist for the British Literary Review's bad sex in fiction... Full Article at The Age