Standing On The Outside

The Voice of America does an assessment of Philip Roth now that his new work, Exit Ghost, is being hyped at BookExpo America. Here's one of the author's rare interviews, from December 2005: "It was the interests in life and the attempt to get life down on the pages which made me a writer - and then I discovered that, in many ways, I am standing on the outside of life". (While on the subject, here are "ten must-reads" from the BookExpo, including Junot Diaz's much-awaited debut novel.)