{"product_id":"reading-myself-and-others-9780679749073","title":"Reading Myself and Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eFascinating interviews, essays, and articles spanning a quarter century on writing, baseball, American fiction, and American Jews--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An illuminating...glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here is Philip Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed, and so much more. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, \u003ci\u003eReading Myself and Others\u003c\/i\u003e features his famed long interview with the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians' Prize for \"the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844904489234,"sku":"9780679749073","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bfdd1ae7-5960-41a0-a9e1-e118b386bd0b.jpg?v=1737336218","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-myself-and-others-9780679749073","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}