In a recent interview Lorin Stein discusses the Jewish realm of literature, from Leonard Michaels and Saul Bellow to the contemporary writers Sam Lipsyte, David Bezmozgis and Joshua Cohen, what it means to be Jewish in today’s literary world as opposed to twenty or fifty years ago, the impact of a “post Annie Hall world” where many Americans grew up in mixed families, and the significance of Elliott Gould playing Trapper John–a football hero–on M.A.S.H.
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