Shop Talk

First edition

Author| Philip Roth
Subject| Writing
Publisher| Houghton Mifflin

Publication date

| September 25, 2001
Pages| 160
ISBN| 0-618-15314-4
OCLC| 46683862

Dewey Decimal

| 809/.045 21
LC Class| PN452 .R68 2001

Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work is a collection of previously published interviews with important 20th-century writers by novelist Philip Roth. Among the writers interviewed are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien. In addition, the book contains a discussion with Mary McCarthy about Roth's novel The Counterlife and a New Yorker essay on Saul Bellow. Roth's trip to Israel to interview Appelfeld inspired his novel Operation Shylock.

## Table of contents[edit]

* Conversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz, from The New York Times Book Review, 1976
* Conversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera, from The New York Times Book Review, 1980
* Conversation in London with Edna O'Brien, from The New York Times Book Review, 1984
* Pictures of Malamud, from The New York Times Book Review, 1986
* A Man Saved by His Skills. Conversation in Turin with Primo Levi, from The New York Times Book Review, 12 ottobre 1986
* Conversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld, from The New York Times Book Review, 1988
* Pictures of Guston, from Vanity Fair, 1989
* Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma, from The New York Review of Books, 1990
* An Exchange with Mary McCarthy, from The New Yorker, 1998
* Rereading Saul Bellow, from The New Yorker, 2000

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Works by Philip Roth

Fiction|

* Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
* Letting Go (1962)
* When She Was Good (1967)
* Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
* Our Gang (1971)
* The Great American Novel (1973)
* My Life as a Man (1974)
* Sabbath's Theater (1995)

Kepesh novels|

* The Breast (1972)
* The Professor of Desire (1977)
* The Dying Animal (2001)

Roth books|

* The Facts (1988)
* Deception (1990)
* Patrimony (1991)
* Operation Shylock (1993)
* The Plot Against America (2004)

Zuckerman novels|

* Zuckerman Bound
* The Ghost Writer (1979)
* Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
* The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
* The Prague Orgy (1985)
* The Counterlife (1986)
* American Pastoral (1997)
* I Married a Communist (1998)
* The Human Stain (2000)
* Exit Ghost (2007)

Nemeses: Short Novels|

* Everyman (2006)
* Indignation (2008)
* The Humbling (2009)
* Nemesis (2010)

Collections|

* Reading Myself and Others (1976)
* A Philip Roth Reader (1980, revised edition 1993)
* Shop Talk (2001)
* Library of America collection (2005–17)

Film/TV adaptations|

* Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
* Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
* The Human Stain (2003)
* Elegy (2008)
* The Humbling (2014)
* Indignation (2016)
* American Pastoral (2016)
* The Plot Against America (2020)
* Deception (2021)

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