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Excerpts from Taylor's forthcoming Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth featured in the current issue of The Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/05/being-friends-with-philip-roth/609106

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Ben Taylor's new book on Roth featured in The Atlantic

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