Shop Talk

Shop Talk

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author = Philip Roth
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subject = Writing
publisher = Houghton Mifflin
pub_date = September 25, 2001
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pages = 160 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-618-15314-4
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"Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work" is a collection of previously published interviews with important 20th century writers by novelist Philip Roth. Among the writers interviewed are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien. In addition, the book contains a discussion with Mary McCarthy about Roth's novel "The Counterlife" and a "New Yorker" essay on Saul Bellow. Roth's trip to Israel to interview Appelfeld inspired his novel "Operation Shylock".


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