348 Philip Roth (with Mike Palindrome)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

As a child growing up in Newark, New Jersey in the 1930s and 40s, Philip Milton Roth (1933-2018) never thought about being a writer. By the time he died, he had become one of the most famous and celebrated figures in the literary world - though his writing and personal flaws attracted criticism as well as admiration. In this episode, Jacke and Mike discuss the life and potential legacy of Philip Roth, author of Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint, Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral, The Plot Against America, and many other works. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network and LitHub radio.
0:07.0	What kind of idea do I have about who I might turn into?
0:12.4	I didn't have any idea.
0:16.0	I had no idea how anybody turned into anything.
0:26.2	I was what I was.
0:28.0	I was this kid, this boy.
0:34.7	When I started college, I wanted to be a lawyer.
0:37.7	I didn't want to be a lawyer.
0:39.0	I just thought that's something you could be.
0:46.4	I was very interested in equality and justice in America.
0:56.5	I suppose from growing up Jewish, and so I thought that if I was a lawyer, I'd be marching
1:07.5	in the cause of truth and justice.
1:11.8	But within a year, and for the first year, so I took pre-loss courses and so on, and
1:18.5	enjoyed some of them, but I began to take literature and then the bell rang again.
1:25.8	And that just overwhelmed everything.
1:30.5	So I thought then that I'd be a college professor, and then I'd be an English teacher.
1:40.5	That's what I thought throughout college, and then I went to graduate school to get advanced
1:45.9	degree to become an English professor.
1:55.8	I wasn't interested in commerce.
2:00.7	My interest in material things was negligible.
2:05.5	I didn't want to get a lot of del, and so I thought I'd be a college professor, and those
2:13.5	days, college professors were paid very poorly.
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