Category: Lijia Zhang

Return of a Roth … necessary reading … rest, Peter

by Nick Owchar, posted in A Game of Thrones, Henry Roth, Kai Maristed, Lijia Zhang, Peter Mathiessen, Publishing, Reading, W.W. Norton, Writing

Of the Roth triumvirate (Philip, Joseph, and Henry), Henry usually gets overshadowed by the other two. After all, how can a maker of bildungsroman tales compete with portraits of a failing empire or the romantic uses of a piece of liver? Well, the work of Henry Roth -- lyric chronicler of childhood in Call It Sleep -- … Continue reading Return of a Roth … necessary reading … rest, Peter