Berlinerblau on Roth and Cancel Culture
Society member Jacques Berlinerblau recently published this reflection on Roth and cancel culture: https://www.thedailybeast.com/has-philip-roth-finally-been-canceled
Society President Matthew Shipe Publishes Understanding Philip Roth
Shipe's monograph on Roth's career was recently published by the University of South Carolina Press. The books offers a concise and comprehensive overview of Roth's oeuvre. The press is offering a 20% discount through the end of June.
Roth and Mischief?
Roth featured in LitHub: https://lithub.com/writer-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown-the-time-philip-roth-lied-to-me/
Upcoming Roth Lecture--Roth's Other Haunts--May 2nd!
Please join us on Monday May 2 at 4:30pm central time for a hybrid lecture/discussion, of “Philip Roth’s Other Haunts,” with Brett Ashley Kaplan. In person: Siebel Center for Design, 1208 South Fourth Street, Champaign Il. Via zoom register go.las.illinois.edu/RothLecture or scan the QR code on the attached poster (which also has a clickable registration link).
You may think of Philip Roth as a quintessential Jewish-American author grounded in Newark, New Jersey where many
Steve Sampson Publishes Review of la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade Second Roth Volume
Society member Steven Sampson recently published a review of the second volume of Roth's collected work. The article--which you can access here ( https://www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2022/03/16/philip-roth-speculaire/ ), is in French, but Steven has kindly written a note that summarizes his review. From Steven Sampson: Dear Fellow Members of the Philip Roth Society, Last month la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (the French equivalent of the Library of America) came out with Volume 2
