Roth Doesn’t Rise to the Occasion, by Tim De Santa

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Vol. 1, Iss. 1Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth What happens when America’s most phallocentric novelist destroys his protagonist’s penis? He writes a bad book. It is almost incredible that the very man who penned Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy’s Complaint and American Pastoral, among other gems, could produce the tired, stale prose in Exit Ghost. Ironically, Philip Roth [...]

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