A fast read, particularly the last third. Murray completes the story of his brother, Ira, and additional information emerges on the life Nathan is leading. In the first instance, I am reminded of the… more →
KJB Literature Blogwrote 2 weeks ago: Dear Wikipedia I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entr … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Actually I shouldn’t say of all time. More appropriately I should say that this choice is from … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Philip Roth’s The Human Stain is a rare example of a book which manages to engage successfully … more →
wrote 2 months ago: The Human Stain Release Date: October 31, 2003 ,Director: Robert Benton Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Nico … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Words taking flight! Sometimes it’s hard to tell! I’m currently on the 4th draft of The … more →
wrote 4 months ago: I’m pleased to kick off 2013 with the second in a series of recycled reads from my Goodwill in … more →
wrote 5 months ago: The picturesque villages of Orford, Magog and North Hatley offer much for the traveller willing to e … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Form and Content label answers to two simple questions about stories. The creation of samplers was v … more →
wrote 6 months ago: The literary world was… well… if not exactly shocked, then at least saddened by the news … more →
wrote 6 months ago: THE GRAND AMERICAN NOVELIST, PHILIP ROTH, IS ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST SUITABLE AUTHORS TO BE CALLED … more →
wrote 7 months ago: At the end of this movie, The Human Stain, we tried to remember why we had purchased this DVD in the … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Philip Roth has written to Wikipedia denying that his novel The Human Stain was based on the life of … more →
wrote 8 months ago: If you missed it last week, author Philip Roth posted an open letter to Wikipedia on the New Yorker … more →
wrote 8 months ago: He’s won a Pulitzer, the National Book Award twice and was awarded the 2011 Man Booker Interna … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Here we discuss Philip Roth’s open letter to The New Yorker to get Wikipedia to change the … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Writers are sometimes reticent about where they get their ideas and plot lines. I once told a crowd … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Due giorni fa il New Yorker ha pubblicato una lettera aperta a Wikipedia del romanziere Philip Roth, … more →
wrote 8 months ago: This is pretty funny, and a little sad. Philip Roth came across an inaccuracy in the Wikipedia arti … more →
wrote 8 months ago: A few things that caught my eye: Having never read any books by Bret Easton Ellis, I can’t say wheth … more →