Philip Roth

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• Veiled References to Philip Roth on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

  
  The Blog at 16th and Q — Authority: 116
  Okay. Pop quiz for all you careful readers of Philip Roth out there. Where did Philip, as well as Nathan Zuckerman and Alexander Portnoy go to elementary school back in the ole Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, NJ?If you answered Chancellor Avenue School, you are correct and thus will fully appreciate this bit from ...
  3 days ago

• THE HUMBLING Al Pacino

  
  Rama's Screen — Authority: 155
  After watching Everybody’s Fine , I was glad that Robert De Niro found his comeback gig and he gave his best performance in years. Which brings me to wonder if the same luck could happen to my favorite character actor of all time, Al Pacino . Can he remove the dirt that were 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill ? ...
  5 days ago

• Barry Levinson to Direct Al Pacino in The Humbling

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 743
  Oh, goodie, its another Philip Roth adaptation about an aging man awakened in life through an affair with a much younger woman! This one is based on Roths latest, The Humbling , and while Im sure the writing in the novel is great as usual, I cant help but think the movie version will be more of the same old man with ...
  5 days ago

• Arts Roundup: Big Bubble in the Sky Edition

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 142
  Hello! Hirshhorn director Richard Koshalek wants to put a giant bubble on top of the museum. Wuh? Writing in the New York Times , architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff details a plan for a blue, 145-foot inflatable structure (he describes it as a multipurpose meeting hall) that would bloom from the ...
  6 days ago

• Al Pacino, Barry Levinson and Buck Henry Team Up on a Roth Tale

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 741
  Three Hollywood legends are working to bring Philip Roths most recent novel to the multiplex.
  6 days ago

• Rumours of the Death of the Novel Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 598
  In light of Philip Roths doomsaying, and flatmancrooked.coms ebook and web serialisation coverage, Megan Power, Kip Tobin and Andy Johnson wade in to the death of the novel debate.
  1 week ago

• Vagina Masks, Four-Handed Women, And The Pitfalls Of Sex Writing [Lust Lit]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 802
  The nominees for The Literary Review s 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Awards are in, leading critics to opine about why its so hard to write about boning. Some of the offending passages, excerpted on BBC News , are pretty poorly written. Paul Therouxs line, "Her hands were all over me, four hands it seemed, or more ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bad sex award for ‘work of genius’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, Dec 1 (IANS) Acclaimed American writer Jonathan Littell has won the Literary Review’s 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a novel that judges described as a “work of genius”.The Kindly Ones, which tells the story of the Nazi Holocaust through the eyes of an executioner, won France’s highest literary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jonathan Littell’s ‘The Kindly Ones’ gets Bad Sex award!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, Dec 1 (ANI): Jonathan Littell, the American winner of the Prix Goncourt, has won the Literary Review’s 2009 bad sex in fiction award for his novel ‘The Kindly Ones’.The tome, which narrates the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of one of the executioners, bagged the award beating the works of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Routines of Writers and Philosophers

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 128
  I have always been fascinated by the daily rituals and routines that govern peoples everyday lives. Daily Routines  has compiled a wide and varied selection of such rituals, taken from interviews and biographies of some of the worlds most distinguished writers and thinkers. It makes for fascinating reading - even ...
  2 weeks ago

• Memoirs of the Year

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Sameer Rahim on a selection of the years best memoirs. Lynn Barbers An Education, Julie Myersons The Lost Child, William Fienness The Music Room and Gabriel Westons Direct Red
  3 weeks ago

• Bad Sex in Fiction Awards: This Year’s Nominees and Our All-Time Top 10

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 687
  It may not be the Nobel Prize, but the competition for this year’s “Bad Sex in Fiction” award is just as stiff (cringe — pun intended). Philip Roth is on the Literary Review’s shortlist, and he’s in good company — current nominees include Amos Oz, Nick Cave, and John Banville, while past candidates ...
  3 weeks ago

• Elegy - Afraid To Live, Afraid To Die

  
  Trash Cinema Club — Authority: 425
  Country: United States Genre: Drama Director: Isabel Coixet Year: 2008 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE One of the curses of great intelligence and erudition is the limitless capacity to provide elaborate justification for being a complete ass. In the case of scholar David ...
  3 weeks ago

• Performance Anxiety

  
  New Haven Review new haven review — Authority: 118
  Philip Roth, The Humbling , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 140 pp, $22.00 In The Humbling , Philip Roth has created a three-act tragedy for famed stage actor Simon Axler, now in his mid-sixties.  In act one, “Into Thin Air,” Axler mysteriously loses his ability to act, his wife leaves him to his misery, and he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bad Awards

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 561
  Last week the Literary Review announced its nominees for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award, which seems to have prompted some ritualistic mea culpas. John Banville , who’s been on the shortlist before, smirkingly suggested he ought never write about sex again ; writing in the Telegraph , previous nominee ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Naked Name of Love

  
  Litopia Daily & Litopia After Dark — Authority: 124
  Jesuit-shaman sex on the eastern steppes of Mongolia. It may sound like an aberration from The Commissioning Meeting (see below) but no, it’s a real book, and a promising candidate for this year’s Bad Sex ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Humbling, Philip Roth

  
  Creation Project — Authority: 512
  I devoured Philip Roth’s newest novel, The Humbling , in about 180 minutes. This brief novel tells the story of Simon Axler’s fall from thespian fame. For decades Axler held the masses captive with brilliant acting. His glory attracted women, money, and fame. And then one day it was gone. He was on stage and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Another Year of Bad Sex

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 129
  Maybe Neil Gaiman got it succinctly right on Twitter a few hours ago : J ust read the Guardian Bad Sex Award contenders ... I may never write a sex scene ever again. O Roth. O Banville. Argh. Yes, its that time of year again when literary lust because fodder for fun. The Guardian has extracts from all the ...
  4 weeks ago

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