Philip Roth on Nemesis from WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth discusses his latest novel, Nemesis. It’s about a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a Newark community. It explores the emotions such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, asks questions about the kind of accidental choices that fatally shape a life, and how an individual can withstand the onslaught of circumstance.

See the show's webpage here. The podcast isn't available yet. (Usually posts the day after.) See also: Nemesis, American Pastoral, The Humbling (Vintage International), Indignation (Vintage International), Portnoy's Complaint