Philip Roth on Fiction

His novels have won the National Book Award (twice), the National Book Critics Circle award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award (thrice), and a Pulitzer Prize (once). So what fiction is Philip Roth currently reading ?

“I’ve stopped reading fiction. I don’t read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don’t have the same interest in fiction that I once did.”

How so?

“I don’t know. I wised up . . . ”

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