Reading Myself and Others

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Fascinating interviews, essays, and articles spanning a quarter century on writing, baseball, American fiction, and American Jewsfrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

"An illuminating...glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction." Chicago Daily News

Here is Philip Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed, and so much more. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his famed long interview with the Paris Review.

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"An illuminating ... glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction.... Reveals a first-rate mind." Chicago Daily News

"Excellent.... Roth's sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety, and indeed in its nature this book is closer to James's prefaces than to any other book ... consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging." Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post

"Roth [is] fearless in his own defense and in defense of literature." Michael Mewshaw, Texas Monthly

Author Bio

PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize forAmerican Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts atthe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.He twice won the National Book Award and the NationalBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/FaulknerAward three times. In 2005The Plot Against Americareceivedthe Society of American Historians Prize for the outstandinghistorical novel on an American theme for 20032004.Roth received PENs two most prestigious awards:in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National HumanitiesMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourthrecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.