Reading Myself and Others

Fascinating interviews, essays, and articles spanning a quarter century on writing, baseball, American fiction, and American Jews—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

“An illuminating…glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction.” —Chicago Daily News

Here is Philip Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it’s engendered. Here too are Roth’s writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed, and so much more. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his famed long interview with the Paris Review.