I’m always amused by New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz: Today, he has fun with Philip Roth’s announcement a year or so ago that he would no longer write fiction and the endless coverage that has surrounded it ever since. (And by the way, I’ve been a fan of Roth’s ever since I read Portnoy’s Complaint at about the age of 16!) Tom “The novelist Philip Roth announced today that a sandwich he ate last week, a turkey one with lettuce and tomato on wheat, would be his last. Roth’s retirement from sandwich eating, announced in an interview with a Dutch literary magazine, came as a surprise to the worlds of publishing and sandwiches. “In the interview, Roth attempted to soft-pedal the reasons behind his startling decision, saying only, ‘I had my first sandwich when I was three or four. That’s almost eighty years ago. That’s a lot of sandwiches…’ “As if to quell any misunderstanding, on Tuesday afternoon Roth issued the following statement through his publisher: ‘Not only have I had my last sandwich, I have made my final public statement about sandwiches.’” newyorker/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/05/philip-roth-says-he-has-had-his-last-sandwich.html#entry-more
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:43:56 +0000
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