RIP Philip Roth

[Double Down]

Well ****.

Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85

 

[Webster]

As a fellow angry NJ Jew, I say RIP.

 

[britwrit]

That sucks. Goodbye Columbus is still an incredible short-story collection. I go back and read it every few years.

 

[Songbird]

American Pastoral is perfection.

 

[Azrael]

Maybe the greatest of our defining postwar giants.


(And Chip McGrath pretty well owns the Great American Novelist obituary/sketchbook.)

 

[John B. Foster]

 

[The Big Ragu]

I wish I had something fresh to say. I really enjoyed his writing. He was prolific, funny in a way I relate to (maybe because I have known his characters throughout my life), and just seemed real, not overly contrived. RIP.

 

[Steak Snabler]

 

[heyabbott]

Sad day. One of my favorites. A great writer and a great mind.

 

[Songbird]

Did he hate LeBron too?

 

[heyabbott]

Did he hate LeBron too?

My bet is that he loved Al Attles who went to the same High School as Mr. Roth, Weequahic High School in Newark. Attles was 5 years behind Mr. Roth.

 

[CD Boogie]

Best American writer of the 20th century in my opinion. I’ve never read anything better than American Pastoral, and Sabbath’s Theater was a close second. And now because he’s dead, he’s stupidly not eligible for the Nobel Prize.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Did he hate LeBron too?

For all Philip Roth knows, LeBron James is some sort of hat

 

[Songbird]

For all Philip Roth knows, LeBron James is some sort of hat

That's almost as funny as Raab saying his wife's vag smells like a Moroccan bazaar.

 

[User 149557]

With Wolfe and Roth both dying in such proximity, it made me realize we're starting to lose all the writers who remember the world before television. I don't know if that's important, but it seems like it might be. Just like I think it was important when we lost all the writers who remembered the world before film and how momentous it will be when all the writers who remember the world before the internet die. There just seems to be a sensibility picked up by living in those eras and I don't know if you can ever try to re-create it later.

 

[typefitter]

With Wolfe and Roth both dying in such proximity, it made me realize we're starting to lose all the writers who remember the world before television. I don't know if that's important, but it seems like it might be. Just like I think it was important when we lost all the writers who remembered the world before film and how momentous it will be when all the writers who remember the world before the internet die. There just seems to be a sensibility picked up by living in those eras and I don't know if you can ever try to re-create it later.

I think there's no doubt we're poorer for losing all these old lions. I've missed Mailer hugely.

 

[Azrael]

Mr. Mailer's apartment is listed for sale again. A bargain at $2.4 million.

Norman Mailer's Former Brooklyn Townhouse Is For Sale - Norman Mailer NYC Home Photos

 

[CD Boogie]

With Wolfe and Roth both dying in such proximity, it made me realize we're starting to lose all the writers who remember the world before television. I don't know if that's important, but it seems like it might be. Just like I think it was important when we lost all the writers who remembered the world before film and how momentous it will be when all the writers who remember the world before the internet die. There just seems to be a sensibility picked up by living in those eras and I don't know if you can ever try to re-create it later.

You can get rid of your TV )

 

[Double Down]

This strikes me as moving in its commitment to art, and also a dark way to live.

 

[CD Boogie]

I think there's no doubt we're poorer for losing all these old lions. I've missed Mailer hugely.

Missed what, exactly? I definitely lament the passing of influential writers, but their influence seemed done, in as much as they weren’t creating any more influential work. Roth retired, a noble out. The influence of such writers is still there if you go back and revisit their great works. In that regard, they’re not dead to me and never will be.