Philip Roth

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Philip Roth on "The Plot Against America"

Thursday, February 23, 2017

13 years ago, Philip Roth wrote about a celebrity with problematic views winning the presidential election…in 1940. 

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Philip Roth on the Leonard Lopate Show

Monday, March 18, 2013

Celebrated novelist Philip Roth is turning 80 this week. As you may have heard on WNYC, he's returning to Newark to mark the occasion. You can mark the occasion by listening to his conversations with Leonard Lopate - he was on the show in 2008 to talk about Indignation and in 2010 to talk about Nemesis.

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Philip Roth on Nemesis

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth discusses his latest novel, Nemesis. It’s about a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a Newark community. It explores the emotions such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, asks questions about the kind of accidental choices that fatally shape a life, and how an individual can withstand the onslaught of circumstance.

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Guest Picks: Philip Roth

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Find out some of Philip Roth's favorite picks!

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Philip Roth’s Latest Novel

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Philip Roth is one of the most celebrated living American writers. His new novel, Indignation, is set in the early years of the Cold War and follows a young boy from New Jersey as he goes through college in the midwest.

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Stars

Thursday, October 02, 2008

One of America's most celebrated writers, Philip Roth, talks about his latest novel. Also, Italian cookbook star Marcella Hazan tells stories of her life beyond her fabulous recipes. Actress/singer Diahann Carroll on how she’s broken both racial and age barriers throughout her long career. We look into how the effect ...

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Philip Roth

Saturday, November 06, 2004

In Philip Roth’s latest novel The Plot Against America, Roth imagines what would have happened if the aviation hero Charles Lindberg had defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 election. In the book, an 8-year old boy named Philip Roth watches as the U.S. sits out of World War II ...

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Listen to the entire Philip Roth interview

Saturday, November 06, 2004

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