Philip Roth: A eulogy for a living man

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“At 79, Roth is the celebrated author of 31 books (all of them impressive, many of them masterpieces), the winner of just about every major literary award but the Nobel, and though he has remained remarkably prolific, his four most recent novels have been brief, spare, and uncharacteristically quiet; reading them, one has the sense of looking through a camera as the aperture slowly contracts.”

Our own Panio Gianopoulos with a beautiful essay on Philip Roth’s declaration of retirement over at Salon. (And hey, there’s still a little time to get a signed first-edition of A Familiar Beast!)

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