Who knew that Philip Roth would steal the show? And not Philip Roth the award-winning novelist but citizen Roth. What was even more striking was that this wasn’t Roth joining us from a studio in New York City or by phone from his home in rural Connecticut—this was the voice of Philip Roth from nearly five years past.
For those of you who missed this show, Chris finally found an opportunity to read excerpts from an interview that Roth gave The Independent, which Chris fortuitously printed out only days before it fell off the face of the virtual earth. Ever since, Chris has been guarding it as though it were a fine vintage wine, hoarding it for years, waiting for the perfect moment to decant it. And as katemcshane points out, we are all the better for the imbibing.
In a sense Roth’s power, speaking as a citizen, illustrates the larger message of the show: not enough time has elapsed for the literature of 9/11 to teach us anything new.
With it’s one sides view of the Lebanese war, it’s difficult to take the Independent seriously.
Check it headline today:
“Blair hit by Lebanon backlash as minister admits ceasefire ‘mistake’
The war lasted 34 days. It left 1,393 people dead. Another 5,350 injured. And more than 1,150,000 displaced, of whom 215,413 are still homeless. The damage amounts to more than £2.6bn. Exactly one month after it ended, a Foreign Office minister admits that Tony Blair should have called for a ceasefire
By Andy McSmith ”
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1578727.ece
Nothing about Israeli casualities, dead and wounded and less than nothing about the half million people forced to flee their homes.
Jews as always are less than human to the “Independent.”
btw: I still don’t know where the link to the Roth article is?
Scribe5: Neither do we. That was Chelsea’s point. The article disappeared from the Independent’s site soon after Chris saw it and happened to have printed it out.
A link to another link: http://www.radioopensource.org/the-lost-roth-interview/#comment-17870