Book description
The interviews, essays and articles collected in this book span a
quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a
preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the
unwritten world.' Here is 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 on baseball,
American fiction, and American Jews. The essential collection of
nonfiction by a true master,
Reading Myself and Others
features his long interview with the Paris Review
.
In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American
Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the
White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to
John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He
has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics
Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005
The Plot Against America received the Society of American
Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an
American theme for 2003-2004."
Recently Roth received PEN's two most prestigious prizes: in 2006
the PEN/Nabokov Award 'for a body of work...of enduring originality
and consummate craftmanship' and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for
achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose 'scale of
achievement over a sustained career...places him or her in the highest
rank of American literature.'
Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published
in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The
last of the eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.
