What Philip Roth Wrought

Philip Roth is an American novelist, but his career has been pocked with controversy — the main argument against his books is that there is a concentrated stream of misogyny that runs throughout his canon — he’s also been labeled a “self-loathing Jew” — but that’s a topic for another article.  The current, ongoing, ding on Philip Roth, as early as yesterday, is that he still hates women, even at age 78.

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Honoring Don Gregory

When I was a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, my English Major adviser was the great Don Gregory.

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