Philip Roth’s Pre-Science Fiction Endeavors
Sunday’s NYT Arts & Leisure section puts Philip Roth on the cover in recognition of his double-barreled entry into one of the most substantial guideposts to our nation’s canon, the Library of America. The first volume combines Goodbye, Columbus and Letting Go, while the second volume runs from When She Was Good through Portnoy’s Complaint to Our Gang and The Breast—a lineup that’s led Jonathan Yardley to suggest already that the comprehensive inclusiveness of this projected eight-volume series is “nuts.”
5 September 2005 | uncategorized |
Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
