โ Scribed by Roth, Philip
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The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it has engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed; and on baseball, American fiction, and American Jews. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his long interview with The Paris Review.;Part I -- Writing and the powers that be -- On Portnoy's complaint -- Document dated July 27, 1969 -- "How did you come to write that book, anyway?" -- On Our gang -- The president addresses the nation -- On The breast -- On The great American novel -- On My life as a man -- After eight books -- Part II -- Writing American fiction -- Some new Jewish stereotypes -- Writing about Jews -- The story of three stories -- The Newark Public Library -- My baseball years -- Cambodia: a modest proposal -- Our castle -- Imagining the erotic: three introductions: 1. Alan Lelchuk 2. Milan Kundera 3. Fredrica Wagman -- Imagining Jews -- "I always wanted you to admire my fasting"; or looking at Kafka.
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