Philip Roth: Stung by Life — Author of Steven Zipperstein in Conversation with Abe Socher, Editor of the Jewish Review of Books

Join us for a special event with award-winning author and distinguished Stanford historian Steven J. Zipperstein as he discusses his new biography of Philip Roth, which sheds new light on the astonishng literary life that scandalized and entranced readers for decades. In conversation with Abe Socher, editor Jewish Review of Books, Zipperstein will discuss Roth's Jewish and literary life and how he came to write it. Come for the new biographical revelations, stay for the old classics—and maybe even leave with a little more appreciation for American Jewry's most controversial novelist.

Ticket options include admission only or admission with a copy of Philip Roth: Stung by Life.

Steven J. Zipperstein is Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author and editor of ten books including The Jews of Odessa, Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing and, most recently, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. He has taught at universities in France, Russia, Poland, and for six years at Oxford University. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Jewish Review of Books and elsewhere, and his books have been translated into Hebrew, French, Russian, and Romanian. Zipperstein is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a recipient of the Smilen Prize for Outstanding Book in Jewish History (1986), a National Jewish Book Award (1995), the Leviant, Prize of the Modern Language Association (2007), and many other honors. His book Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History was named to The Economist’s Books of the Year List for 2018, among other accolades.

Abe Socher is the editor of the Jewish Review of Books.