Philip Roth

by Gabriel Welsch (Editor)

A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the American author.

296 pages, Hardcover

Published September 18, 2003

About the author

For nearly 15 years, Gabriel Welsch worked in the ornamental horticulture and landscaping industries in roles as a crew grunt, production grower, plant buyer, landscape foreman, and garden designer before working in higher education teaching and administration. He writes fiction and poetry. Groundscratchers, his first colection of short fiction, was published by Tolsun Books in 2021. He also is the author of four collections of poems: The Four Horsepersons of a Disappointing Apocalypse, The Death of Flying Things, An Eye Fluent in Gray, and Dirt and All Its Dense Labor. His work has appeared widely, in journals including Mid-American Review, Ploughshares, Georgia Review, New Letters, Southern Review, Chautauqua, Harvard Review, Ascent, and on Verse Daily and in Ted Kooser’s column “American Life in Poetry.” A native of Maine and a graduate of the MFA program at Penn State, he now lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with his family, and works as vice president of marketing and communications at Duquesne University.

Reviews

[Ke]

I liked this collection of essays because they ranged from creative to critical. i.e. a confession by Portnoy's therapist to academic reviews.