http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lethem_was_corrupted_by_the_breast WNYC has audio from last weekend's Phillip Roth 75th Birthday Extravaganza. There's a panel discussion featuring Jonathan Lethem, Charles D'Ambrosio, and Nathan Englander about Phillip Roth and his influence on their work, and there's also two other chunks of audio, including Roth's own speech. Presumably, Roth doesn't talk about his own influence on himself, because he covered that pretty well in Portnoy's Complaint. Lethem talks about the book The Breast, which is a highly underrated Roth novella, if such a thing is even possible. It's a riff on The Metamorphosis, about a chauvinistic man who wakes up one day to... Copyright 2008 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:51:37 -0800 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:39:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thanks for this link, Paul. I managed to catch an hour or so of this broadcast on a Friday road trip. Those were wonderful interviews.

]]> orson http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lethem_was_corrupted_by_the_breast#c998290 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lethem_was_corrupted_by_the_breast#c998290 Books Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:26:28 -0800 Heh.... Behind every celebrated Lethem novel is a breast or two. I personally know the woman who revised Motherless Brooklyn for him (without credit, of course).

]]> JME http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lethem_was_corrupted_by_the_breast#c998523 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/lethem_was_corrupted_by_the_breast#c998523 Books Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:39:06 -0800