Shop Talk

First edition
Author	Philip Roth
Subject	Writing
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	September 25, 2001
Pages	160
ISBN	0-618-15314-4
OCLC	46683862
Dewey Decimal	809/.045 21
LC Class	PN452 .R68 2001

Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work is a collection of previously published interviews with important 20th-century writers by novelist Philip Roth. Among the writers interviewed are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien. In addition, the book contains a discussion with Mary McCarthy about Roth's novel The Counterlife and a New Yorker essay on Saul Bellow. Roth's trip to Israel to interview Appelfeld inspired his novel Operation Shylock.

Table of contents

• Conversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz, from The New York Times Book Review, 1976
• Conversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera, from The New York Times Book Review, 1980
• Conversation in London with Edna O'Brien, from The New York Times Book Review, 1984
• Pictures of Malamud, from The New York Times Book Review, 1986
• A Man Saved by His Skills. Conversation in Turin with Primo Levi, from The New York Times Book Review, 12 ottobre 1986
• Conversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld, from The New York Times Book Review, 1988
• Pictures of Guston, from Vanity Fair, 1989
• Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma, from The New York Review of Books, 1990
• An Exchange with Mary McCarthy, from The New Yorker, 1998
• Rereading Saul Bellow, from The New Yorker, 2000

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