{"id":457,"date":"2012-11-09T17:19:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T22:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=457"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:14:40","slug":"philip-roth-says-hes-done-writing-books-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Philip Roth Says He&#8217;s Done Writing Books &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we supposed to be crestfallen about this news, or just relieved? \u00a0(I&#8217;m very much a fan of Roth&#8217;s early and middle period work, but think his fiction precipitously drops in quality beginning with <em>American Pastoral<\/em>, which was over-written and over-praised. \u00a0<em>The Counter-Life<\/em> and <em>Ghost Writer<\/em>, however, are at least two of his novels that will hold up brilliantly for future readers.)<\/p>\n<p>Looks like from comments at the end of this interview that Roth is now most concerned with writing his own publicity and shaping how we should interpret his legacy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 24px;\" href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/09\/philip-roth-says-hes-done-writing\/?hp\">Philip Roth Says Hes Done Writing Books &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we supposed to be crestfallen about this news, or just relieved? \u00a0(I&#8217;m very much a fan of Roth&#8217;s early and middle period work, but think his fiction precipitously drops in quality beginning with American Pastoral, which was over-written and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23,70],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}