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 Animal.https://www.nytimes.com/by/wesley-morrishttps://www.nytimes.com/by/sam-anderson

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. A long time contributor to the New Yorker and The New York Times, his novel, The Sleep-Over Artist, was a New York Times Notable Book, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book. He is also author of Seduction Theory: Stories, How To Be a Man: Essays, J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, and Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball. His memoir, Degas at the Gas Station: My Childhood, My Fatherhood, is forthcoming in the spring of 2025 from Duke University.

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-harveyhttps://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.