...his commitment to relativity and juxtaposition, and ultimately to discount his commitment to the novel. As Kundera said to Philip Roth in a 1980 interview printed in the New York Times Book Review: I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means...
...a sign of further unraveling at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which represents authors like Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer and Günter Grass, the publisher of the companyâs adult trade division has resigned. The publisher, Becky Saletan, who took the job in...
...day. Dennis Hopper: Well, it's the best thing I've been in in the last 10 years, because of the materialâthe Philip Roth novel and the screenplay by Nicholas Meyer. And because of Isabel Coixet, who directed it and who also operates her own camera. And working...
...gregarious playwright. Hi David. Can you explain the title for me? No, itâs a surprise part of the show. Letâs just say Philip Roth is a promising presence in this show, as is the Sudan. OK, then tell me what itâs about. Itâs about married people in their...
...characteristic? My gummy smile. Who are your favorite writers? Edith Wharton, Carson McCullers, Harper Lee, John Steinbeck, Philip Roth. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Mulan. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Amelia Earhart. Who are...
...that backlist will be accordedâHoughton and Harcourt are backlist-heavy houses, full of books by Nobel Prize winners and Philip Rothâwere hard-pressed to dine out on that news. âIt's the beginning of the end of publishing as we know it,â many callers and e-mailers...
...bad news came from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a company formed from the union of two venerable publishers of authors like Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Guenter Grass and J.R.R. Tolkien. Last week, a company spokesman said that, with rare exceptions, editors...
...that backlist will be accordedâHoughton and Harcourt are backlist-heavy houses, full of books by Nobel Prize winners and Philip Rothâwere hard-pressed to dine out on that news. âIt's the beginning of the end of publishing as we know it,â many callers and e-mailers...
...new Palm branch in Tribeca complained about the scent of rib eye permeating their homes. Houghton Mifflin, publisher of Philip Roth, took the rest of the year off from acquiring new books. Nearly 3,000 Lubavitchers from around the world schlepped to the city...
...Exploding Mangoes. The grandees of literature stayed busy too: Nobel winner Toni Morrison returned to the theme of slavery; Philip Roth took readers back to 1950s campus life; and John Updike revisited old haunts in The Widows of Eastwick. When we look back,...