NP Roth essay re his new novel

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:36, pynchonoid wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/books/review/19ROTHL.html


Interesting. Is it some kind of pomo thing for an author to explain his
book to readers before it's even officially published? Maintaining
authorial control.

Walter Winchell has got a lot of play lately. Angels in America and
Citizen Cohn. Now he turns up in "Plot Against America" as a good guy.
Good relative to Bad Lindy.

Roth sez:
What it comes down to is that I wanted Lindbergh opposed not by a saint
but by a gossip columnist, the most famous gossip columnist in the
country, gross and cheap without apology, whose enemies considered him a
loudmouth Jew. Winchell was to gossip what Lindbergh was to flight: the
record-breaking pioneer.