May 2018 – Slushpile

Philip Roth Has Died

By Heather Quinlan May 23, 2018 In News 0 claire bloom, goodbye columbus 0

Philip Roth died yesterday at the age of 85 from congestive heart failure. And … what else can be written about Philip Roth that hasn’t already been written?

The Bonfire Extinguished

By Heather Quinlan May 15, 2018 In News 0 a man in full, bonfire of the vanities 0

Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review, described Tom Wolfe’s death as the “passing of an era.”

He was known for coining phrases such as “radical chic”—a derogatory term for pretentious liberals—and “the Me Decade,” which described the self-indulgence of the 1970s.