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Remembering Roth
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Resumen del Editor
To most audiences, Philip Roth is a literary icon, author of probing, provocative works like American Pastoral, Portnoy’s Complaint, and Goodbye, Columbus. But to James Atlas, Philip Roth was more than just a writer—he was a friend.
In 1977, when he was 28, James Atlas published his first book, a biography of the poet Delmore Schwartz, and was stunned to receive a congratulatory letter from Philip Roth. He had been moved by the tragic story it told.
Thus began a friendship that lasted, with a few intervals, until Roth's death. Roth was living in rural Connecticut then, having exiled himself from the literary noise of Manhattan in order to focus on his work, and was on his own. He invited Atlas to come visit, which he did—the first of numerous pilgrimages to the Roth homestead. They remained close for nearly two decades, reading each other’s work, wandering the streets of the West Side—Roth had an apartment on Atlas’s block—and commiserating about the solitary rigors of the writer’s life. Atlas helped Roth with The Ghost Writer; Roth helped Atlas learn how to live.
The snag came when Roth suggested Atlas write the biography of Saul Bellow, and then became unhappy with the result, a book that was sympathetic but also tough—perhaps at times too tough—on its subject. Bellow had become Roth's literary hero. They drifted apart, though toward the end of his life they were both thinking about whether Atlas should write his biography. In the end, they both decided it wasn’t a good idea, but Atlas always knew he would write about him someday. Funny, brilliant, raucous, tender, he was the most charismatic person Atlas ever knew. Remembering Roth is his valedictory.
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James Atlas is the author of Bellow: A Biography; Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet (nominated for the National Book Award), and the memoir My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor’s Tale. The founder of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives series, Atlas was for many years an editor at The New York Times, first at The Book Review and later at the magazine. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, and other journals. He lives in New York City.
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- A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
- De: Lori Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
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One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
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It was like a hallmark movie being waterboarded into my ears for 15 hours
- De Amazon Customer en 10-01-19
De: Lori Gottlieb
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Letters from Guantánamo
- De: Mansoor Adayfi, Antonio Aiello
- Narrado por: Mansoor Adayfi, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Elias Khalil, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia and sold to US forces for bounty money. After months of interrogations, he was sent to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as one of its first prisoners. Like the nearly 800 other men imprisoned at Guantanamo, Adayfi didn’t know why he was imprisoned or for how long. He had never seen a skyscraper and couldn’t imagine what the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center looked like, much less how they were destroyed.
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An important reminder
- De Dave Heilman en 05-25-24
De: Mansoor Adayfi, y otros
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
De: Jack Weatherford
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The Demon Next Door
- De: Bryan Burrough
- Narrado por: Steve White
- Duración: 2 h y 45 m
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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.
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Odd narration choice
- De Amanda Fredericks en 03-08-19
De: Bryan Burrough
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Going Infinite
- The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking listeners into the mind of Bankman-Fried.
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really expected more rigor from Michael Lewis
- De Wowhello en 10-04-23
De: Michael Lewis
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- De: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrado por: Laurence Fishburne
- Duración: 16 h y 52 m
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Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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Audible Masterpiece
- De Phoenician en 09-10-20
De: Malcolm X, y otros
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Drinking
- A Love Story
- De: Caroline Knapp
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor", a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.
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The Big Picture of Alcohol Dependence
- De Karen K en 07-26-16
De: Caroline Knapp
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My Story
- De: Marilyn Monroe
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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Marilyn Monroe had the most famous face of the 20th century. A legendary actress, comedienne, and sex symbol, she has been one of Hollywood’s most talked-about performers ever since she first crossed the silver screen. Her fame persisted long after her tragic death—but as time has gone by, it has become almost impossible to separate the legend of the woman born as Norma Jeane from the truth. Now, at last, Marilyn’s real story can be told.
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Nice To Hear Norma Jean
- De Brooke R. Calder en 02-23-23
De: Marilyn Monroe
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Exposed
- The Ashley Madison Hack
- De: Sophie Elmhirst, Maria Luisa Tucker
- Narrado por: Sophie Nélisse
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
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Millions of people–looking to cheat on their partners–signed up for Ashley Madison in the early 2000s, seeking a private space to share their public desires. The promise of discretion was shattered in the summer of 2015, when anonymous hackers stole the company’s cache of user information and published it worldwide. The result? One of the most shocking data breaches of the internet age. Overnight, millions of unfaithful spouses had their real names, addresses and sexual preferences published online in a searchable database that anyone could browse.
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Hard to feel sorry for the cheaters
- De Kim Kormylo en 02-21-24
De: Sophie Elmhirst, y otros
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
- One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes
- De: Jessica Pan
- Narrado por: Jessica Pan
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life.
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Encouraging memoir: Sorry, cheer
- De Aaron Menz en 07-03-23
De: Jessica Pan
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Trace of Doubt
- De: Samantha Weinberg
- Narrado por: Samantha Weinberg
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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In the summer of 1985, a brilliant young British DNA scientist Helena Greenwood is found murdered in her front garden in a quiet suburb in California. The police believe they know the killer’s identity but there’s no evidence against him, and the only thing linking him to the crime is the fact he’d been charged with sexually assaulting Helena just a few months previously.
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Waste of her energy
- De shannon j en 01-27-24
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Under the Bridge
- De: Rebecca Godfrey
- Narrado por: Rebecca Godfrey, Erin Moon, Mary Gaitskill - introduction
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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One moonlit night, 14-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls - and boy - accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.
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Powerful Account of 8 Young Teens Killing Another
- De Mary Burnight en 08-16-19
De: Rebecca Godfrey
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Chasing Boaz Manor
- De: Leah McLaren
- Narrado por: Serinda Swan
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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Boaz Manor was a finance wunderkind. He started a hedge-fund company in Canada and later burst onto Wall Street with a product that could transform the crypto market. By all accounts, he was incredibly hard-working. Possibly brilliant. And...a shameless con man who ended up wanted in multiple countries. Chasing Boaz Manor explores Boaz’s schemes through the perspective of those he left in his wake.
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Drawn out and unresolved waste of time
- De DC en 06-06-24
De: Leah McLaren
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Remembering Roth
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- Joe Kraus
- 03-07-19
A Glimpse at a Famous Friendship
I never got to meet Philip Roth. I never even got to see him read from a distance. I did read him, extensively, and I did get to write and lecture a fair bit about him. (Shameless plug: my summative lecture on his career is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqZf7G32kcE&t=12s ) I was demographically like a lot of his younger friends – that is, like Adam Gopnik and James Atlas, I’m a Jewish writer (Atlas even went to my cousins’ high school – but somehow I never got the chance to hang out with him.
I still regret that, but I’m grateful to Atlas for giving me a sense of what I missed.
Above all, there’s confirmation of what I’ve heard often before: Roth was, in person, one of the most charming and magnetic personalities you can imagine. He enjoyed Atlas’s early biography of Delmore Schwartz, wrote Atlas to tell him, and the two became friends.
This isn’t long at all – it’s an extended essay as much as an almost-book – but it’s rich in detail about Roth’s humor, in both its good and ill dimensions.
My favorite amusing anecdote is from the time Atlas saw Roth sitting to talk with Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez. When Roth asked Hernandez how he was able to play so well on the field, Hernandez said, “It’s mental.” When Hernandez asked Roth how he was able to write so well, he answered, “It’s physical.”
Another winner comes when Roth asks Atlas to join him in the country with the “rich and famous.” “But I’m neither of those,” Atlas replies. “I know,” says Roth, “but they hate you as it you were.”
There are many others, though, and Atlas does a fine job of not overdoing their shared cleverness. It’s two men who enjoyed talking with another.
And then, in ways also famously characteristic of Roth, it isn’t. Atlas can’t put his finger on what soured their friendship. It may have been Atlas’s perhaps too aggressive biography of Saul Bellow, and it might just have been Roth aging into irascibility, but they stopped being as close.
This part of the memoir works just as well as the beginning. It shows the two continuing their friendship but in strained fashion. In a poignant moment, Roth writes him as “James” rather than as “Jim,” and Atlas sighs at the implication of estrangement.
In the end, Atlas is sad to think he’s not one of the thirty friends gathered around Roth’s bedside at his death – thirty being a very large number for a man who claimed so often to be alone, and a number large enough for Atlas to think he might have been part of it.
Atlas tells us he was in the running to write Roth’s biography, and I’m confident he’d have done a good job. What we have here, though, is something else. It may be slighter than a full biography, but it seems more personal than any biography could have been. It’s the account of a strong writer coming to terms with what it meant to be friends with one of the great voices of our time.
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- al jay
- 03-20-19
self absorbed eulogist remembers Roth
the bottom line is it's worth listening to but fails to deliver much insightful or interesting information. I suspect Atlas does speak for many Roth syncophants.
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- Saranit Vongkiatkajorn
- 04-06-19
An Eulogy to be inferred from what is implied
This is a good insight into the evolving relationship between James Atlas, the narrator/author, and Phillip Roth. Atlas, in general, idolizes Roth. It listens like a long, extended eulogy with some interesting flashbacks to difficult or complementary times in their mutual association as writer-potential-biographer-artist-critics. There's a lot about both author's Jewish heritage that I did not understand, but that is to be expected. Overall, it felt like listening to someone talk about a famous college friend or colleague he hasn't seen in a while, even though they used to be close. Which I guess, is what it is. :)
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- ejb
- 05-18-19
Interesting Insights
If you like Roth you'll appreciate a friend's perspective on his life. I'm only familiar with two of his works but as far as a short read goes, it was interesting to get to know him from an insider's point of view. It adds to the appreciation of his stories.
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- Raquel Saltiel
- 03-15-19
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didn't like the narrator very much. his diction is not very clear, made it hard to understand sometimes.
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- Badger
- 11-19-22
Sweet, bittersweet, and affecting
If you share Atlas’s high opinion of Roth’s books, you will value this opportunity to learn what it was like to be Roth’s close admirer and friend - a mixed experience, told without rancor.
The author is not a professional-level narrator but it’s his story and it’s right that we’re hearing it from him.
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- David H Milton
- 04-12-19
Content was great...just too little. A short read
WAY too short but touching and well told. Would like to see more from the author.
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- A. Sherman
- 04-05-19
Intimate and raw story about a long and fraught friendship
Atlas’ chronicle of his friendship with Roth gave me new insight into Philip Roth as a man, but it offers much more than that as a reflection on the vicissitudes of our relationships. I especially enjoyed hearing Atlas read it in his own voice tenderly.
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- glass1748
- 09-13-21
Poorly Narrated
Although quite brief, this biography of Philip Roth was a good story with a nice amount of information I didn’t know about Roth as I am rather new to much of his work.
I did not enjoy the narration at all. Atlas’s attempt at a Yiddish accent was horrendous. I wondered if he had a speech impediment which was unpleasant to hear.
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- Phil
- 03-18-19
Better than average
Introduction into the thinking and writing of Phillip Roth started out a bit slow and then became q writing of an empathetic nature. The frustration of being a writer and the author beside the subject challenges. An excellent description of the mindset. How to write a biography of a friendship that grew strong and had begun withering over subsequent months and years. The author Atlas presents the narration with limited enthusiasm, yet with compassion towards understanding his friend and himself. I enjoyed the audio format.
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