Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be among dozens of featured guests at a Philip Roth tribute in the late novelist's NJ hometown.
“Philip Roth Unbound” — a reference to Roth's novel “Zuckerman Unbound” — will run in Newark the weekend of March 17-19, around the time Roth would have turned 90. The Pulitzer winner died in 2018 at age 85.
Presented by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, in collaboration with the Newark Public Library, “Philip Roth Unbound” will include a reading of his dystopian bestseller “The Plot Against America,” a preview of a stage adaptation of “Sabbath's Theater,” co-presented by Turturro and Ariel Levy, and debates on censorship and other issues Roth often contended with in his lifetime.
“Over the last 75 years, Philip Roth was one of the most singular and challenging voices in American fiction; NJPAC CEO John Schreiber said in a statement released Tuesday.
Highlights also include a Roth-centered bus tour of Newark; “Stand-up and Challah!,” featuring readings of Roth's most comical writing; and “Letting the Repellent In: Philip Roth and the Art of Outrage,” billed as “a provocative panel on the cathartic power of discomfort.”
Fra Roth pledged Sammy at Bucknell where he graduated magna cum laude, in 1954.
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