Philip Roth

The Last Word: A Celebration of Genius

March 29, 2019

  The New York Times has created a truly unique and invaluable series of profiles — on videotape — of famous people just before their death. They include (in alpha order) Edward Albee, Barbara Bush, John Glenn, Stephen Hawking, Hugh…

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Updike: A book review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2014

Updike Adam Begley HarperCollins (2014) “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” Sigmund Freud John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009) is widely considered among the most accomplished U.S. writers during…

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Superagent Andrew Wylie on being an e-reading book snob

June 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew Wylie for WSJ Magazine (June 2011). To read the complete article, please click here. In an introduction to the article, Daniel Gross explains that literary agent Andrew Wylie “is of…

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