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Reading Myself And Others
''Reading Myself and Others'' (1975) is an anthology of essays, interviews and criticism by the author Philip Roth. The first half of the book is built mainly upon Roth's assessment of his own published works at the time of the anthology's publication. The second half of the volume consists of essays and introductions by Roth about other authors. Many of the essays were occasioned by the abrupt fame and scrutiny which came to Roth upon the publication of his storm-provoking fourth novel, ''Portnoy's Complaint'' (1969). In the "Author's Note", Roth writes that the selections in the book "are largely the by-products of getting started as a novelist, and then of taking stock." ''Reading Myself'' includes interviews of Roth conducted by other authors as well as several essays in which Roth attempts to answer some of the critics of his early works. Among the interviews, one was conducted by the author Joyce Carol Oates about Roth's novel '' The Breast'' (1972). Appropriate to the book's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (; March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection '' Goodbye, Columbus'', which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.Brauner (2005), pp. 43–47 Ten years later, he published the bestseller '' Portnoy's Complaint''. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history '' The Plot Against America''. Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation. He received the National Book Critics Circle award for '' The Counterlife,'' the PEN/Fau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes. As of 1993, the publisher has been a division of Macmillan Publishers, Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Founding Farrar, Straus, and Company was founded in 1945 by Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. The first book was ''Yank: The G.I. Story of the War'', a compilation of articles that appeared in ''Yank, the Army Weekly'', then ''There Were Two Pirates'', a novel by James Branch Cabell. The first years of existence were rough until they published the diet book ''Look Younger, Live Longer'' by Gayelord Hauser in 1950. The book went on to sell 500,000 copies and Straus said that the book carried them along for a while. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portnoy's Complaint
''Portnoy's Complaint'' is a 1969 American novel by Philip Roth. Its success turned Roth into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit and candid treatment of sexuality, including detailed depictions of masturbation using various props. The novel tells the humorous monologue of "a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor," who confesses to his psychoanalyst in "intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ''Portnoy's Complaint'' 52nd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. ''Time'' included this novel in its "''TIME'' 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005." Structure and themes Structurally, ''Portnoy's Complaint'' is a continuous monologue by narrator Alexander Portnoy to Dr. Spielvogel, his psychoanalyst; Roth later explained that the artistic choice to frame the story as a psychoanalytic session was motivated by "the permissive conventions of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels ''Black Water (novella), Black Water'' (1992), ''What I Lived For'' (1994), and ''Blonde (novel), Blonde'' (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love and Other Stories, ''The Wheel of Love'' (1970) and ''Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories'' (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ''Them (novel), Them'' (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019). Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. From 2016 to 2020, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Breast
''The Breast'' (1972) is a novella by Philip Roth, in which the protagonist, David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. Throughout the book, Kepesh fights with himself. Part of him wishes to give in to bodily desires, while the other part of him wants to be rational. Kepesh, a literature professor, compares his plight with that of fictional characters such as Gregor Samsa in Kafka's short story ''The Metamorphosis'' and Kovalyov in Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...'s short story " The Nose". Throughout the novella, he describes the various sexual and physical feelings he has while people handle him, while initiating sex with his girlfriend, and while he is alone. During a stay on the beach with his girlfriend, Claire, Kepesh had wished to have breasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Trilling
Diana Trilling (née Rubin; July 21, 1905 – October 23, 1996) was an American literary critic and author, one of a group of left-wing writers known as the New York Intellectuals. Background Born Diana Rubin, she married the literary and cultural critic Lionel Trilling in 1929 after an extended stay in Paris with childhood friend Margaret Lefranc. Her parents, Sadie (née Forbert) and Joseph Rubin, were Polish Jews, her father from Warsaw and her mother from the local countryside. She graduated from Radcliffe College. Career Diana Trilling was a reviewer for ''The Nation'' magazine. Her works include ''We Must March My Darlings'' (1977), an essay collection; ''Mrs. Harris'' (1981), a study of and meditation on the trial of Jean Harris; and ''The Beginning of the Journey'' (1993), a memoir of her life and marriage to Lionel Trilling. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976. Cultural impact Carolyn Heilbrun wrote about Trilling i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Dials
''Five Dials'' was a digital literary magazine published from London by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, between 2008 and 2023. Edited by Craig Taylor, ''Five Dials'' featured short fiction, essays, letters, poetry, reporting from around the world (humbly tagged "Currentish Events") and illustrations. The magazine was free and distributed in Portable Document Format (PDF) approximately every month. Though available online, the magazine was intended to be printed and enjoyed on paper. ''Five Dials'' was downloadable from the Hamish Hamilton website and subscribers received email notifications about new issues. In his editor's letter for the June 2008 inaugural issue, Craig Taylor described ''Five Dials'' as "the product of a few editors and writers who would like to push a small enterprise into the inboxes of anyone interested in good writing." ''Five Dials'' closed after 16 years and 66 issues; however, the magazine's complete archive remains available. History N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harper's Magazine
''Harper's Magazine'' is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States. ''Harper's Magazine'' has won 22 National Magazine Awards. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the magazine published works of prominent authors and political figures, including Herman Melville, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. Willie Morris's resignation as editor in 1971 was considered a major event, and many other employees of the magazine resigned with him. The magazine has developed into the 21st century, adding several blogs. It is related under the same publisher to Harper's Bazaar magazine, focused on fashion, and several other "Harper's" titles but each publication is independently produced. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, ''Harper's Magazine'', along with ''The Atlantic,'' and ''The New Yorker'', ranked highest in Higher educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Anthologies
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1975 Books
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11. * January 20 ** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam. ** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French Channel Tunnel scheme. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
