Philip Roth Unbound: Interview Transcript
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Philip Roth Unbound
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
The most celebrated American author is at the height of his powers in his latest novel, The Humbling. In a rare video interview-his only for this book-Philip Roth sits down with Tina Brown at The Beast Bar to talk about writing, mortality, politics and why he thinks the novel is a dying form.
Philip Roth Unbound: The Full Interview
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
The most celebrated American author is at the height of his powers in his latest novel, The Humbling. In a rare video interview-his only for this book-Philip Roth sits down with Tina Brown at The Beast Bar to talk about writing, mortality, politics, and why he thinks the novel is a dying form.
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Israeli novelist Amos Oz may have been the frontrunner, but this year's Nobel Prize for literature went to Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller. View our gallery of writing laureates.
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