Article: Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work.(Review)

Shop Talk: A Writer and His 
Colleagues and Their Work 
PHILIP ROTH 
Houghton Mifflin 
160 pages 

Questions of rime, place and politics in the art of fiction provoke these intense conversations between Roth and a handful of his esteemed friends. It's not mechanics or craft that intrigue the author. One of our best novelists (American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint), he cares less about plot and style than ideas--and here, whether talking with Primo Levi about Auschwitz, Edna O'Brien about Ireland or Milan Kundera about the significance of Central Europe in the twentieth century, he wants to know not how these ...

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