Newark Natives Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, two of the city’s most acclaimed literary figures, were “near-exact contemporaries,” award-winning poet, author and educator John Keene said on Wednesday, ...
The CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center says the late author, the subject of a new biography, enlightened him about what it means to be a father, a son, a writer and an American. Sometime in 2011 or ...
Philip Roth liked to booby-trap his biographers. In “Exit Ghost” (2007), he calls biography “the lowest of literary rackets.” Yet one version of biography kept drawing him back. “Making fake biography ...