Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway: “his son, Harry...read aloud from Bob's favorite Hemingway story, "Big Two-Hearted River"”
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles: “played supporting roles in ambitious student productions of Oedipus Rex, School for Scandal, and Death of a Salesman”
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: “student productions of Oedipus Rex, School for Scandal, and Death of a Salesman”
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller: “student productions of Oedipus Rex, School for Scandal, and Death of a Salesman”
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James: “whose Portrait of a Lady had been a virtual handbook during the early drafts of Letting Go”
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James: “would surely have talked about The Wings of the Dove very much like my ebullient fellow student”
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: “had me obsessively thumbing through the pages of Madame Bovary during the years I was searching for the perch”
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison: “instructing through examples drawn from Invisible Man and the ambiguous relationship that novel had established”
My Life as a Man by Philip Roth: “The description in My Life as a Man, in the chapter "Marriage à la Mode," of how Peter Tarnopol is tricked”
When She Was Good by Philip Roth: “exploiting this painful, ludicrous episode for a scene in my novel When She Was Good”
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth: “a question that was to turn up some twenty years later in The Ghost Writer, asked of Nathan Zuckerman”
The Counterlife by Philip Roth: epigraph: "Nathan Zuckerman, in The Counterlife"
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth: “After Goodbye, Columbus won the 1960 National Book Award for Fiction”
Letting Go by Philip Roth: “Random House was publishing Letting Go, my second book, later in the year”
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Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth: “The piece, which, as 'Safe at Home,' became the opening chapter of The Facts, described my Newark neighborhood...”