Philip Roth: Why Write? (LOA #300): Collected Nonfiction

Philip Roth: Why Write? (LOA #300): Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 (Library of America Philip Roth Edition)

Americaâ€™s most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, includingÂ including six pieces published here for the first time and many others newly revised.

Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbathâ€™s Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary body of nonfiction writing on a wide range of topics: his own work and that of the writers he admires, the creative process, and the state of American culture. This work is collected for the first time in Why Write?, the tenth and final volume in the Library of Americaâ€™sÂ definitive Philip Roth edition. Here is Rothâ€™s selection of the indispensable core of Reading Myself and Others,Â the entirety of the 2001 book Shop Talk, and â€œExplanations,â€ a collection of fourteen later pieces brought together here for the first time, six never before published. Among the essays gathered are â€œMy Uchronia,â€ an account of the genesis of The Plot Against America, a novel grounded in the insight that â€œall the assurances are provisional, even here in a two-hundred-year-old democracyâ€; â€œErrata,â€ the unabridged version of the â€œOpen Letter to Wikipediaâ€ published on The New Yorkerâ€™s website in 2012 to counter the online encyclopediaâ€™s egregious errors about his life and work; and â€œThe Ruthless Intimacy of Fiction,â€ a speech delivered on the occasion ofÂ his eightieth birthday that celebrates the â€œrefractory way of livingâ€ of Sabbathâ€™s Theaterâ€™s Mickey Sabbath. AlsoÂ included are two lengthy interviews given after Rothâ€™s retirement, which take stock of a lifetime of work.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781598535402
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ReleaseDate 2017-09-12
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EANs 9781598535402

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781598535402
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2017-09-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598535402

Philip Roth: Why Write? (LOA #300): Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 (Library of America Philip Roth Edition)

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