Philip Roth’s retirement may well go down in history as one of the literary world’s greatest pranks.
Over at The Baffler, J.C. Hallman takes a look at whether the literary giant has actually retired, despite giving interviews and and participating in conferences and receiving awards—and whether the very idea of a writer retiring is “to cheapen that role.”
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