litdrift.com - 26 days ago
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The book is not dead! Since starting Lit Drift, I’ve gotten used to reading a lot of doom-and-gloom opinion pieces about the death of the publishing industry. I’ve read predictions that the paperbound book will be totally replaced by digital books within the decade, or that we’ll all stop buying ...
mhpbooks.com - 30 days ago
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mhpbooks.com —
Philip Roth in front of a map of
Newark, his hometown. Author Philip Roth gave his hometown
Newark, New Jersey’s Weequahic High’s 50th anniversary graduates a real thrill the other day when he stepped onto the bus that was taking ...
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Apparently, you can go home again.
thedailybeast.com - 30 days ago
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thedailybeast.com —
The most celebrated American author is at the
height of his powers in his latest novel, The
Humbling. In a rare video interview-his only for this book-Philip Roth sits down with Tina Brown for The Daily Beast's new Web series, The Beast Bar, to talk...
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Philip Roth Unbound
online.wsj.com - 30 days ago
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online.wsj.com —
Ross on Roth Ross Miller, general editor of
Philip Roth's complete work for the Library of America,
offers his selection of five indispensable works. The Ghost Writer (1979): The first of nine novels featuring the writer Nathan Zuckerman as ...
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Philip Roth on 'The Humbling'
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... landscape of literary tastes. (The Guardian)
Hyperion rethinks the release date of two books by James Arthur Ray, what with the dead bodies and all. (Publishers Weekly)
Amazon blog counts down the first batch of the best books of 2009. (Omnivoracious)
Hannah Davies unravels the mystery of the Russian Booker Prize. (Guardian Books Blog)
JK Evanczuk offers up ‘5 Reasons Why the Novel is Not a Dying Medium’. (Lit Drift)
Alice Murno reveals her recent battle with cancer at a Toronto ...
In the News: Sanford Shrugs, Planet for Sale?
The Book Bench —
... Crime comics are giving all those superheroes a run for their money.
Alice Munro has quietly been fighting health problems.
The BBC looks to unload Lonely Planet.
Looking for artistic inspiration? Go north!
A new release from the Library of America tries to answer what it means to become an American.
Rising taxes threaten to put historic London bookshops out of business.
Maybe the novel isn't dying.
The Resilience of the Novel
The Rumpus.net —
... that the novel will be a “cult minority” in 25 years: “5 Reasons Why the Novel Is Not A Dying Medium.” ...
Dana Stabenow Guest Blogs
The Lipstick Chronicles —
... says, "These cheap books might be the death of publishing, book sharing might be the death of publishing, Stephen King is delaying his e-book because e-books are the death of publishing . . . is anyone else bored of this conversation?" and then links to Lit Drift's 5 Reasons Why the Novel is Not a Dying Medium, where they channel Mark Twain in saying that the death of the novel is greatly exaggerated. ...
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latimesblogs.latimes.com 10/20/2009 — Alumni of New Jersey's Weequahic High who signed up for the Oct. 17 "Philip Roth's Newark" bus tour as part of their 50th reunion celebrations were surprised to find that it included Philip Roth himself. It's the second time the author has made ...
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wardsix.blogspot.com 10/6/2009 — I was going to talk about this in the comments of the last post, where reader Mark was talking about the consistent quality and prolificity of Philip Roth's work, but thought it was worth a post of its own. I believe the reason Roth can be so good, ...
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latimes.com 19 days ago — Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 140 pp., $22 "He'd lost his magic," begins Philip Roth's elegant and brutal new novella, launching right into the downfall of its protagonist, Simon Axler, a celebrated sixtysomething actor. "Instead of the ...
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