Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1962: Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories / Letting Go (Library of America)
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
In Philip Roth's new novel, "The Humbling," an aging actor seeks redemption through an affair with a younger woman.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Always among the most cerebral of managers, Fulham's Roy Hodgson has excelled himself by issuing a list of his top 10 favourite novels which includes heavyweight authors like Milan Kundera, Herman Hesse, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Katie Price (one of these names is not correct).It must be a relief to Roy that Liam Rosenior moved on shortly before he arrived at Craven Cottage, having just named his...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
The finalists are in. Few literary hounds are surprised by this entry: The Pulitzer prize-winning [Philip] Roth makes the line-up for The Humbling, in which the ageing actor Simon converts Pegeen, a lesbian, to heterosexuality. The Literary Review singled out...
What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | yesterday
N.B.: This is a far more thoughtful response to Feodor's complaint about my remarks concerning Marcel Proust. If this doesn't satisfy him, well, I'll buy him a subscription to Dissent. One point George Scialabba made last evening with which I profoundly disagree (for obvious reasons) is the effect of the internet on literacy . I find this odd, in particular, since so much of what happens on the internet...
Emerging Writer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As in written about Bad Sex. I've personally written sex badly and written bad sex quote badly too. Here's the nominees for this year. Paul Theroux’s A Dead Hand (Hamish Hamilton) Philip Roth’s The Humbling (Jonathan Cape), Anthony Quinn’s The Rescue Man (Jonathan Cape), Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Chatto), Amos Oz’s Rhyming Life and Death (Chatto), Nick Cave’s...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
British magazine the Literary Review has announced the shortlist of finalists for its Bad Sex Award. The contenders list could be plucked from any highbrow literary award competition: John Banville has won a Booker, Amos Oz has been awarded the...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition | Books | guardian.co.uk
Voy Por Ustedes (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Hooray, Philip Roth is on the shortlist for the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award for a scene in his novel The Humbling involving three people and a green dildo. I haven't researched this thoroughly, but it's a travesty if he hasn't been a mainstay of this list throughout his career. I'm generally not enthusiastic about American Jewish fiction, but I've read a lot of his books mostly because of how filthy...
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
No, the title isn't a typo! Believe it or not, Nick Cave has been nominated for the 17th annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award presented by the Literary Review magazine for his book " The Death of Bunny Munro ". Other nominees include Philip Roth and Paul Theroux , whilst Tom Wolfe , Melvyn Bragg and Sebastian Faulks are all past winners! The award was set up by Auberon Waugh to "draw attention...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
by Philip RothCape, £12.99 Philip Roth has been the most enthralling American writer of the past 25 years. As a result his readers expect a masterpiece every time. Roth does not always deliver one but he doesn’t always try to. His new novel is very short and limited in scope. But it is by no means a negligible work.Simon Axler is an aging American stage actor whose powers are on the wane....
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
THE Humbling's author, Philip Roth, has been the most enthralling American writer of the past 25 years.
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Did Frank Gehry make a Viagra joke at a topping-off ceremony? The Blind Side movie made Ken Starr all teary-eyed. Colum McCann's Let The Great World Spin won the National Book Award. Meanwhile, Philip Roth was shortlisted for a bad-sex writing prize. The Times inspires darkening, then repair of a Queens hospital sign. Goldman Sachs picks 272 new managing directors. Galleon case keep growing; insider...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Stage Fright: How to read Philip Roth's quartet on aging . An interesting piece by Judith Shulevitz.
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
They've announced the contenders for the Literary Review 's popular 'Bad Sex' award -- typically: not yet at the official site , but Alison Flood has the lowdown in Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition in The Guardian . Embarrassingly, quite a few of these books are under review at the complete review : Paul Theroux's A Dead Hand Philip Roth's The Humbling Jonathan Littell's...
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
According to today’s Grauniad, the great Philip Roth has been shortlisted for the Literary Review’s bad sex award. This trophy (a plaster foot) was inaugurated by the late Auberon Waugh to “draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.” It’s his most [...]
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