Yeah, sure, new books are great, but do you ever read old books?

Have you ever read ‘American Pastoral’ by Philip Roth?

It's his brilliant disembowelling of America in the 20th Century, and all its hopes of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss.

#reading #PhilipRoth #AmericanPastoral

https://DrBsLibrary.com/americanpastoral

#chegiornoè - #19marzo 1933 nasce Philip Roth.

Con 18 volumi tradotti, Mantovani non è solo un semplice traduttore, ma il sarto che ha cucito l'abito italiano per Philip Roth. Nell'articolo per la rivista #AltreModernità, Martino Marazzi prende in esame l'archivio di traduzioni di Mantovani per approfondire, da un punto di vista insolito, l'ascesa di #PhilipRoth come uno dei più grandi scrittori americani.

Leggilo in #openaccess : https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/30169?mtm_campaign=mastodon
@cultura

Literarischer #19März

„He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”

#PhilipRoth #AmericanPastoral Geburt 1933

"In the tradition of #PhilipRoth’s #PortnoysComplaint, #NightNightFawn is a rant — and it’s a rant of comedic genius. There’s a hand job at a screening of Exodus. There are cold cuts at an open-casket funeral. There’s a despised corduroy blazer that surfaces and resurfaces from hiding, a pesky affirmation of the young Jordana's gender fluidity (she actually believed she could accoutre herself out of the misery of femaleness, says Barbara). There’s erotic Marxist lesbian science fiction.

While the #novel alternates in setting between contemporary #Manhattan and mid-20th-century #Brooklyn, Barbara’s speech is a relic of the latter - deliciously populated with the tropes and #Yiddishisms of nose jobs and Hadassah, Junior’s Deli and schmucks. It[...] has spent time at Coney Island; a novel that spits pellets of kasha varnishkes. It also spits bullets at Israeli settlers.

As grounded as the novel is in earthy humor, Night Night Fawn can also be mystically surreal."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/books/review/night-night-fawn-jordy-rosenberg.html

Portapotty's Complaint

#PlumbingBooksOrPlays
#HashTagGames
#PhilipRoth

Twelve books down so far this year, and I have decided to reread this for no particular reason!

#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #PhilipRoth #ThePlotAgainstAmerica #ANTIFA #StopFascism

#Audiblehas several #SaulBellow novels that are free (if you subscribe). I haven't read anything of his except high school or college freshman. He and #PhilipRoth were discussed and recommended in passing.

#ReadingRecommendations #JewishWriters #Literature #Fiction

The Psychology of Portnoy: On the Making of Philip Roth's Groundbreaking Novel

https://lithub.com/the-psychology-of-portnoy-on-the-making-of-philip-roths-groundbreaking-novel/

#HackerNews #ThePsychologyOfPortnoy #PhilipRoth #Literature #Analysis #NovelWriting