But I always loved the Zuckerman novels, in which “Nathan Zuckerman” leads a parallel existence to that of his creator. Maybe, in the end, the Zuckerman novels are novels for writers, or for readers who dream of being writers. The only writer in the entire canon of very, very high literature – I’m talking should’ve-got-the-Nobel-prize high - who is properly funny, laugh-out-loud funny, Peep Show funny, is Philip Roth. Howard Jacobson: Is American Pastoral Philip Roth at his best? Her songs include From Philip Roth to R ZimmermanJoyce Carol Oates on Roth’s legacyPhilip Roth was a slightly older contemporary of mine.

Source: The Guardian May 23, 2018 17:24 UTC