Roger Rosenblatt





Roger Rosenblatt

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Roger Rosenblatt’s essays for Time magazine and PBS have won two George Polk Awards, a Peabody, and an Emmy. He is the author of six Off-Broadway plays and 13 books, including the national bestseller Rules for Aging and Children of War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written two satirical novels, Beet and Lapham Rising, also a national bestseller. In 2008 he was appointed Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University.


Average rating: 3.59 · 3,055 ratings · 839 reviews · 23 distinct works
Making Toast
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,955 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions
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Unless It Moves the Human H...
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Kayak Morning: Reflections ...
3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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Lapham Rising: A Novel
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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Beet
2.94 of 5 stars 2.94 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Rules for Aging: Resist Nor...
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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Consuming Desires: Consumpt...
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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Anything Can Happen
3.1 of 5 stars 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Where We Stand: 30 Reasons ...
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Coming Apart: A Memoir Of T...
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“A library should be like a pair of open arms.”
Roger Rosenblatt

“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.”
Roger Rosenblatt

“Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible”
Roger Rosenblatt, Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing



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