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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Philip Roth, a longtime friend and an early contributor to the magazine, died last week at age eighty-five. Roth\u2019s influence on American letters is staggering, and it didn\u2019t take long for the remembrances, appreciations, and obituaries to pour in from every publication imaginable.<\/p>\n

This week, to honor Roth, we bring you his\u00a0Art of Fiction interview<\/a>,\u00a0from our Fall 1984 issue; his novella\u00a0Goodbye, Columbus<\/a><\/em>, from our Autumn\u2013Winter 1958\u20131959 issue; and a\u00a0special bonus episode of our podcast<\/a>, where we share a recording of Roth\u2019s speech from our 2010 Revel, when he was given the Hadada, our award for lifetime achievement.<\/p>\n

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Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84<\/a>
\nIssue no. 93 (Fall 1984)<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s all the art of impersonation, isn\u2019t it? That\u2019s the fundamental novelistic gift \u2026 I am a writer writing a book impersonating a writer who wants to be a doctor impersonating a pornographer\u2014who then, to compound the impersonation, to barb the edge, pretends he\u2019s a well-known literary critic. Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0my life. There has to be some pleasure in this job, and that\u2019s it. To go around in disguise. To act a character. To pass oneself off as what one is not. To\u00a0pretend<\/em>. The sly and cunning masquerade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Goodbye, Columbus<\/a>
\nBy Philip Roth
\nIssue no. 20\u00a0(Autumn\u2013Winter\u00a01958\u20131959)<\/em><\/p>\n

The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses. Then she stepped out to the edge of the diving board and looked foggily into the pool; it could have been drained, myopic Brenda would never have known it. She dove beautifully, and a moment later she was swimming back to the side of the pool, her head of short-clipped auburn hair held up, straight ahead of her, as though it were a rose on a long stem. The rose glided dry to the edge and then it was beside me. \u201cThank you,\u201d she said, her eyes watery though not from the water. She extended a hand for her glasses but did not put them on until she turned and headed away. I watched her move off. Her hands suddenly appeared behind her. She caught the bottom of her suit between thumb and index finger and flicked what flesh had been showing back where it belonged. My blood jumped.<\/p>\n

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Time Has Stood Still: Philip Roth (1933\u20132018)<\/a>
\nBy\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>
\nBonus Episode<\/em><\/p>\n

Before Philip Roth was an American icon, he published one of his first short stories in\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>,\u00a0in 1958. In 2010, he received the Hadada, our award for lifetime achievement. Listen to his acceptance speech.<\/p>\n

If you like what you read,\u00a0get a year of\u00a0<\/a><\/em>The Paris Review<\/a>\u2014four new issues, plus instant access to everything we\u2019ve ever published.\u00a0<\/em>Order now and you\u2019ll get a copy of our new\u00a0book,\u00a0<\/em>The Writer\u2019s Chapbook<\/a>,\u00a0for only ten dollars more.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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