Philip Roth

Philip Roth

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  Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award

  Philip Roth's latest honor was as much for what he has done for other writers as for his own work. Roth received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary ... 

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  Roth's 80th cause for Newark, NJ, celebration

  "Sitting there in the park," Philip Roth wrote in "Goodbye Columbus, "I felt a deep knowledge of Newark, an attachment so rooted that it could not ... 

• Book of short stories wins PEN/Faulkner prize

  A collection of short stories set along the border between Texas and Mexico has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The directors of the ... 

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  AP NewsBreak: Dylan voted into elite arts academy

  If he lived in England, he'd surely be Sir Bob Dylan. The most influential songwriter of his time has become the first rock star voted into the elite, ... 

• Watergate novel nominated for fiction prize

  Thomas Mallon's novel about the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction. Published by Random ... 

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  Toni Morrison talks to Google about creativity

  Novelist Toni Morrison, speaking Wednesday to dozens of Google employees holding laptops and smartphones, shared her vision for how she would turn the ... 

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  10 finalists named for international Booker prize

  American author Marilynne Robinson, Israel's Aharon Appelfeld and China's Yan Lianke are among 10 finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for ... 

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  Roth retires but Wolfe, Wouk among authors past 80

  Philip Roth, 79 and looking fit in recent photographs, has said that after looking back on his long and prolific career he decided he had written ...