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
, American Pastoral, The Humbling (Vintage International), Indignation (Vintage International), Portnoy's Complaint
