The Philip Roth Society

Reflection on Roth, baseball, and Koufax in The Forward https://forward.com/culture/461261/what-philip-roth-and-sandy-koufax-have-in-common/

Starting in January 2021, we will be altering (and simplifying) our membership plans. For current members who want to keep the print edition, membership will cost $60/year. This rate will be the same for US and international members. The slight increase in price—$10 for US members and $5 for international subscribers—will help offset the additional shipping expenses that the Society will have to take on now that Purdue will no longer be mailing the journal. Membership with an

Society member Louis Gordon has published an essay on The Humbling that appeared on the Implications-Philosophiques webpage. The article can be found here: http://www.implications-philosophiques.org/actualite/une/the-humbling-a-philosophy-of-defeat/

Ira Nadel, whose biography of Philip Roth will be published by Oxford in the spring, was featured on the Biography Society webpage. Here's the link to the post: http://biographysociety.org/2020/11/24/ira-nadel-big-lives/ Why are biographies so big? More information, better access, greater reader curiosity? This short, 1000 word essay examines the reasons for “Big Lives” which have in the last year or so have seen Benjamin Moser’s Sontag at 816 pp, Hermione Lee’s Tom Stoppard,