So what makes you write?

The desire to experiment, to ask what if. What if… such and such occurred, what would happen then? I begin all of my books with a what if. For example, “What if a polio epidemic had struck my neighborhood in Newark in 1944?”

Last month our friends at French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles reported that Philip Roth has called it a day, and the world took notice.

Here is the full interview with Nelly Kaprielian, in English for the first time.

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