WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ALL THOSE ALTER EGOS?
"The shameful
details.
The sexual
frustration.
The chronic
masturbating."
—Bret Easton
Ellis
"Hek loathsome
the way we're
all loathsome
one way or
another, in our
own ways, when
we're examined
closely and
in private. He
feels like an
Imaginary
bridge between
Roth and the
reader. Like
most bridges,
he's not as
beautiful as the
waters below,
but he needs to
be there in
order to get us
from one side
to the other. "
—David
Means
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PORTNOY'S CONPLAINT (1969)
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"Philip Roth"
DECEPTION: RNOVEL (1990)
OPERATIQNSHYLOCK:
A CONFESSION (1993)
THE PL OT A GA AM
(2004)
"He's needy,
whiny, smug,
sexist,
solipsistic—
basically, a
DSM-Roth of
all the more
noxlous
qualities in
these novels. "
—Kathryn
Schulz
"He masturbates
and urinates
on his dead
lover's grave."
-Jennifer
Gilmore
"l think
authors should
steer clear of
their fiction—
that's what
Twitter is for."
—Neil LaBute
nymag.com