The PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award: Philip Roth

The PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award honors a writer whose critically acclaimed work has drawn a wide audience and helps us to understand the human condition in original and powerful ways. The 2013 recipient of the award was Philip Roth.

[@Lily_Rowan]

Phillip Roth- a great, quietly altruistic humanitarian. Since his passing in 2018, we are bereft without his exceptional intellect and most wonderful spirit. His historical and societal analyses and syntheses are unparalleled. We have his 31 novels, his editing of writers of Eastern Europe, his essays and interviews. Yet our world today requires even more of his acumen, wisdom, and humor. For we are living in a most unfunny time. And a most unsexy time. as well.

[@theotherguy5516]

All of this is true, but I must thank you for your last two sentences, which are profoundly true; I hadn't thought of our insane world like that, and their absence -- and the killjoys' unquenchable joy in killing them over and over -- explains our current predicament.

[@thomasd2444]

02:10 - At it again

[@anjumanara3493]

What you told Very nice.I am a bilingual Indian poetess.Do write poems in Hindi and Odia languages

[@krms6233]

hello, I am writer too

[@krms6233]

Hello Iam writer too

[@rubyparchment5523]

Just read my third Aravind Adiga, the yellow one of short stories - loved it. Perumal Murugan's ONE PART WOMAN is standing by, uncracked. Have wanted it for so long, I hate idea of being done with it!

[@joanaversie7244]

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