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Article: Talking to Myself and Others: It's Philip Roth's Right To Monopolize the Talk With His Peers, but as His Latest Book Shows, It Narrows the Conversation; Shop Talk; A Writer and His Colleagues and ...
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Stavans, Ilan
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10-26-2001
Talking to Myself and Others: It's Philip Roth's Right To Monopolize the
Talk With His Peers, But as His Latest Book Shows, It Narrows the
Conversation; Shop Talk; A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work
Mr. Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring professor of Latin American and Latino
culture at Amherst College. His latest book is "On Borrowed Words: A Memoir
of Language" (Viking, 2001).
Why is this garrulous little volume so unsatisfying? In "Shop Talk," Philip
Roth has collected a handful of literary conversations he conducted between
1976 and 1990 with prominent American, European and Israeli authors such as
Bernard Malamud, Primo Levi, Ivan Klima, Aharon Appelfeld, ...