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Article: CALL IT WRITER'S BLOCK In his 60 years between novels, `Call It Sleep' author Henry Roth picked fruit, taught Latin, raised ducks -- everything but publish
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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ALBUQUERQUE -- Up a long tired boulevard in North Albuquerque, a
few blocks from the Rio Grande, beyond Hawg Heaven Custom Cycles and
Dunn Rite Auto Body, is the dead-end street where Henry Roth lives.
Driving north on gritty Fourth Street, one thinks of other cities
filled with teeming life, Harlem perhaps, that other north-side grid
with long avenues, endless blocks and river to the west.
This urban scheme, this low-rise landscape, is one of the things
that attracted Henry Roth when he and his wife moved here from Maine
in 1968. "This sort of sprawl is what I was brought up with," he
says. It recapitulated in a way the Irish/Jewish Harlem of the teens
and 1920s, where he grew up, and it ...
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