{"product_id":"9780547344898","title":"Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe legendary author’s essays and interviews explore how fellow writers from Milan Kundera to Edna O’Brien are influenced by time, place, and politics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Writers are often deeply influenced by the time and place in which they live and write. In \u003ci\u003eShop Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, Philip Roth, winner of a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and numerous other literary honors, explores the intimate relationship a writer’s experience has with his or her work.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In a series of essays, Roth recounts his intellectual encounters with writers, discussing with them the diverse regions from which they hail and pondering the influence of locale, politics, and history on their work. Featuring luminaries such as Milan Kundera discussing Czechoslovakia; Primo Levi talking about Auschwitz; Edna O’Brien reflecting on Ireland; Isaac Bashevis Singer tackling Warsaw; Aharon Appelfeld on Bukovina; and Ivan Klíma on Prague, Roth’s conversations touch on the conditions that inspire great art, with artists as attuned to the subtleties of their societies as they are the nuances of words.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Also including a portrait of Bernard Malamud, a written exchange with Mary McCarthy about Roth’s \u003ci\u003eThe Counterlife\u003c\/i\u003e, and the essay “Rereading Saul Bellow,” \u003ci\u003eShop Talk \u003c\/i\u003eis a “fascinating [glimpse] of some of the deans of postwar literature” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073815560432,"sku":"9780547344898","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547344898_p0.jpg?v=1772804863","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547344898","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}