Roth & Company

Naomi Fry and Matthew Schneier join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Roth's most famous work, the groundbreaking comic rant, Portnoy's Complaint . Naomi Fry is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the host of the Critics at Large podcast . Matthew Schneier is the chief restaurant critic at New York Magazine.

Wesley Morris and Sam Anderson join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Roth's nonfiction masterpiece, Patrimony. Wesley Morris is a two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning critic forthe New York Times, and the host of the podcast Cannonball. Sam Anderson, a staff writer for the Times Magazine, is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, the author of the book BOOMTOWN, and the host of the podcast Ani...

Essayist and fiction writer Tom Beller joins host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Philip Roth's very first book, Goodbye, Columbus . Tom Beller was a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and is a professor and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. He is the winner of the 2015 New York City Book Award, a Robert Silvers Grant for Works in Progress, and a 2021 ATLAS grant from the state of Louisiana....

Writers Hannah Gold and Giles Harvey join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Philip Roth's four-part autofictional saga, Zuckerman Bound . With special emphasis on The Prague Orgy . More about Giles and Hannah: https://www.nytimes.com/by/giles-harvey https://thisobscureobject.tumblr.com/about

Rebecca Panovka, co-founder of The Drift, Rachel Poser, editor at the New York Times Magazine, and David S. Wallace, who has written for the New Yorker , the Paris Review , and elsewhere, join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Philip Roth's I Married a Communist. To learn more about the Philip Roth Personal Library, visit prpl.npl.org.

Historian Corey Robin and The New Yorker 's Andrew Marantz join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss The Plot Against America , Philip Roth's counter-historical novel, in which fascist-sympathizer Charles A. Lindbergh becomes President of the United States. Corey Robin is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. A frequent contributor to T...

New York Times reporters Emma Goldberg and Marc Tracy join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Operation Shylock, Philip Roth's manic "confession" about Israel, doubles and Diasporism. Emma Goldberg is a reporter for the New York Times who covers business, economic shifts, and the culture of work. She profiled the Israeli peace activist, Vivian Silver, who was killed in the October 7th...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, American Pastoral. Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for  The New York Times Magazine  and the  New York Times  bestselling author of  Fleishman Is in Trouble,  which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is also the creator and executive producer of its Emmy-nominated limi...

Ariel Levy and Garth Greenwell join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Philip Roth's filthy masterpiece, Sabbath's Theater. Ariel Levy is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the bestselling memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply. She is the co-writer, with John Turturro, of the stage adaptation of Sabbath's Theater, which made its off-Broadway debut in 2023. Garth Greenwell is the author of...

Novelists Adelle Waldman and Andrew Martin join host Sam Graham-Felsen to discuss Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer.