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Philip Roth: in Memory
Remarks delivered at the Philip Roth Memorial service on September 25, 2018, at the New York Public Library.
84 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2019
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October 16, 2021
A Commemoration Of Philip Roth
The Library of America paid fitting tribute to Philip Roth (1933 -- May 22, 2018) by publishing his complete works in ten large volumes while the author was still alive. Following Roth's death, a memorial service was held on September 25, 2018, at the Celeste Bartos Forum of New York Public Library, also a fitting place for a Roth commemoration. The Library of America has published this small volume which consists of the program of the memorial service. The volume follows closely the order and content of the program. There are welcoming and concluding remarks by Joel Conarroe and presentations by nine well-known friends of Roth. The remarks of a tenth speaker who was unable to attend the ceremony are also included. The ten participants were Claudia Roth Pierpoint, Norman Manea, Bernard Avishai, Nichole Krauss, Janis Bellow, Judith Thurman, Julia Golier, Edna O'Brien, Andrew Wylie, and Benjamin Taylor. Roth maintained an intensely private life. Each speaker offers his or her own reflections on their relationship to Roth and thoughts about his writing. The inevitability of death and the need to live life to the fullest is a theme which runs through many of the presentations, as it does in Roth's writings.
The memorial service was open to the public with a reception following the presentations. The Library of America has done another service in making this brief volume of the proceedings available. The proceeds from sale of the volume will be used to further the mission of the Library of America in preserving the best of American writing and thought. It is a goal I think Roth would have approved. Admirers of Philip Roth will be interested in reading this keepsake of the memorial service.
Robin Friedman
The Library of America paid fitting tribute to Philip Roth (1933 -- May 22, 2018) by publishing his complete works in ten large volumes while the author was still alive. Following Roth's death, a memorial service was held on September 25, 2018, at the Celeste Bartos Forum of New York Public Library, also a fitting place for a Roth commemoration. The Library of America has published this small volume which consists of the program of the memorial service. The volume follows closely the order and content of the program. There are welcoming and concluding remarks by Joel Conarroe and presentations by nine well-known friends of Roth. The remarks of a tenth speaker who was unable to attend the ceremony are also included. The ten participants were Claudia Roth Pierpoint, Norman Manea, Bernard Avishai, Nichole Krauss, Janis Bellow, Judith Thurman, Julia Golier, Edna O'Brien, Andrew Wylie, and Benjamin Taylor. Roth maintained an intensely private life. Each speaker offers his or her own reflections on their relationship to Roth and thoughts about his writing. The inevitability of death and the need to live life to the fullest is a theme which runs through many of the presentations, as it does in Roth's writings.
The memorial service was open to the public with a reception following the presentations. The Library of America has done another service in making this brief volume of the proceedings available. The proceeds from sale of the volume will be used to further the mission of the Library of America in preserving the best of American writing and thought. It is a goal I think Roth would have approved. Admirers of Philip Roth will be interested in reading this keepsake of the memorial service.
Robin Friedman
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