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...when many writers are winding down, Philip Roth is enjoying a remarkable creative surge. The American author, now 71, has published six breathtaking novels in the past nine years; he won the U.S. National Book Award in 1995 and the Pulitzer in 1998. His latest, The Plot Against America, is near the top of U.S. best-seller lists. But like other acclaimed authors writing in English, Roth depends on gifted but unsung translators to bring his books to audiences abroad. In France, Roth is especially fortunate to have had his recent work rendered by Josée Kamoun...
...Coop bookstore saw sales go up significantly this weekend, said floor manager Joseph Nathan, though he said he could not release exact figures. Nathan said that sales have improved since late July and that the fall releases of works by popular authors like Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe have driven sales...
...National Book Award (NBA) this year have three things in common: they are all women, they all live in New York City, and until now almost nobody had heard of any of them. In a year with books by Russell Banks, Cynthia Ozick, Tom Wolfe, John Updike and Philip Roth, the fiction committee went for five relative unknowns. That caused a hue and cry in literary circles, although, admittedly, literary types love a good hue and cry, and it doesn't take much to get them going...
...terms of more contemporary authors, Bloom said “there’s no question about it, we have four first-class novelists writing at the moment,” Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Cormack McCarthy, whose Blood Meridian he said was “so savage and splendid there’s been nothing as good since Faulkner...
...with the offense providing the early lead yesterday, Harvard’s defense took over the game, allowing only six shots that were all stopped by senior back-up goalie Jamie Roth, even without the help of Andersen, Stapleton and Wiggin...