Philip Roth didn't have to invent a Macondo or a Yoknapatawpha County. From the very start of his career, he situated significant portions of his fiction in a place you can find pretty easily on a map: Essex County, New Jersey.
As someone who spent half her childhood (ages 9-18) growing up in Essex County, I particularly appreciated yesterday's Paper Cuts post on Roth, a most famous literary "Jersey Boy." (Did you know that that his first book of stories, Goodbye Columbus, was published 50 years ago this week? Happy Birthday to Roth's debut book.)
May 5, 2009
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