“Philip Roth: Unmasked” and the Birth of a Meme

Mar 11, 2013 Source: New Yorker (blog)

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The key sentence of “Defender of the Faith,” Philip Roth's first story in The New Yorker, which he discusses in this clip, is the very first sentence—and even the first four words. The story ran in the issue of March 14, 1959. (It was republished ... (Read More)

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