News about Philip Roth

Christian Samay, a political undergraduate at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, was declared dead on Saturday in what college investigators say was an unrelated occurrence. As the news of Samay's death broke, the leading liberal arts college held its spring break two weeks ago, the Lewisburg campus was packed with students. On Facebook, student Amaya Becker wrote, 'Our student body is really shaken from the last 24 hours.' Nothing is currently set in stone, but the students are now planning to have their own vigil on the campus quad in remembrance.'

CRAIG BROWN: Writers tend to be overlooked, though I do have an old book titled Sleeping With Bad Boys and subtitled: 'A juicy tell-all of literary New York in the 1950s and 1960s.' Alice Denham, the author's former Playboy playmate, wrote in more detail about her obsessions with modern American authors such as Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth ('a sex fiend). . . I was breathless. . . He hung in long and stale ('). Sadly, Ms Denham never appeared to Britain in the 1950s, so she missed out on tweedy, pipe-smoking nights of ferocious literature with our own admired writers of the day, such as J.B. Priestley or J.R.R.R.R. Tolkien. In the meantime, we can now enjoy The Secret Heart by a former John le Carré's family, Suleika Dawson. The book is described as a 'personal memoir.'