Here we are : my friendship with Philip Roth / Benjamin Taylor.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525505242
- ISBN: 0525505245
- ISBN: 9780143133452
- ISBN: 0143133454
- Physical Description: 171 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, [2020]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | No model but itself -- The dignity of an elderly gentleman -- Mistakes -- Housekeeping in America -- There is a God and his name is laughter -- The destructive element -- Why must the Atheists' booth look so sad? -- Partings. Philip Roth -- Benjamin Taylor. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | 813.54 TAY (Text) | 000162682 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Here We Are : My Friendship with Philip Roth
Benjamin Taylor's family memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House , received the 2018 Los Angeles Times /Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice; his Proust: The Search was named a Best Book of 2016 by Thomas Mallon in The New York Times Book Review ; and his Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay was named a Best Book of 2012 by Judith Thurman in The New Yorker . He is also the author of two novels, Tales Out of School, winner of the 1996 Harold Ribalow Prize, and The Book of Getting Even, winner of a Barnes & Noble Discover Award. He edited Saul Bellow: Letters , named a Best Book of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times and Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post , and Bellow's There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a New York Times Editors' Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2017. Taylor is a founding faculty member in the New School's Graduate School of Writing and teaches also in the Columbia University School of the Arts. He is a past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and serves as president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation.