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A bialy.<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019re out this week, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we\u2019re away. We hope you enjoy\u2014and have a happy New Year!<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Roughly two weeks ago in the dining room of a Jewish deli on the Upper West Side (whose name, for legal reasons, must remain undisclosed) I served Philip Roth his usual nova, eggs, and onions (egg whites only); a bialy (hold the cream cheese and butter); and a large, fresh-squeezed orange juice. He was once a more regular patron, but I hadn\u2019t seen Roth at the deli for nearly a year\u2014he does reside in Connecticut\u2014and during the last two months I\u2019d been looking forward to his arrival with heightened anticipation. With my debut novel, Balls<\/em>, now published, I would conquer my nerves and give him a copy. Sure, many months before I had heard him say in an interview that he no longer read fiction. But his reading<\/em> the book was not the point: having worshiped at the Roth altar for more than half of my thirty-three years, it was simply something that had to be done. And here was my chance.<\/p>\n

He was seated alone at a table, reading on an iPhone and awaiting his check. I approached Roth with less trepidation than I had anticipated, given that in past years, the author\u2019s presence had been enough to make me physically ill and render my hands so shaky that I would drop plates, spill coffee, trip on air. He looked\u2009\u2026\u2009well, he looked like Roth: ruddy skinned, dark eyes stoical, bushy eyebrows untamed, shoulders back in a noble posture. Against my boss\u2019s orders (I\u2019ve actually signed a piece of paper that said I wouldn\u2019t write about patrons or bother them with things such as my novel, the consequence being my termination\u2009\u2026\u2009I hope I have a job tomorrow, the child will need diapers!) I keep copies of the novel in a knapsack under the waiter\u2019s station just for moments like these. I tucked one under my arm. With every table in the dining room occupied and me, the only waiter, neglecting the needs of a good fifty patrons, I approached Roth. Holding out Balls<\/em> as a numbness set into the muscles of my face, I spoke. \u201cSir, I\u2019ve heard you say that you don\u2019t read fiction anymore, but I\u2019ve just had my first novel published and I\u2019d like to give you a copy.\u201d<\/p>\n

His eyes lifting from his iPhone, he took the book from my hands. He congratulated me. Then, staring at the cover, he said, \u201cGreat title. I\u2019m surprised I didn\u2019t think of it myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

These words worked on me like a hit of morphine. Like two hits. It felt as if I was no longer the occupant of my own body. The legs had gone weak, the ears warmed, the eyes watered, the heart rate increased rapidly. Barely able to keep myself upright, I told him, \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Roth, who, the world would learn sixteen days later, was retiring from writing, said, in an even tone, with seeming sincerity, \u201cYeah, this is great. But I would quit while you\u2019re ahead. Really, it\u2019s an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it\u2019s not any good. I would say just stop now. You don\u2019t want to do this to yourself. That\u2019s my advice to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I managed, \u201cIt\u2019s too late, sir. There\u2019s no turning back. I\u2019m in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nodding slowly, he said to me, \u201cWell then, good luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

After which I went back to work.<\/p>\n

In the two weeks that followed our exchange, I\u2019ve mentally replayed the moment again and again. And the conclusion I\u2019ve most often drawn was that if I hadn\u2019t been drugged by his compliment, by his presence, by the fact that he was actually engaging me in a conversation about writing, I would have asked him not whether he would have traded in all the celebrity, the money, and the sex to have lived the more plain existence of, say, an insurance agent. No, I would have asked him about boredom. And though I have only one novel published\u2014and experienced none of the success of Roth\u2014I still feel strongly that the one thing a writer has above all else, the reward which is bigger than anything that may come to him after huge advances and Hollywood adaptations, is the weapon against boredom. The question of how to spend his time, what to do today, tomorrow, and during all the other pockets of time in between when some doing is required: this is not applicable to the writer. For he can always lose himself in the act of writing and make time vanish. After which, he actually has something to show for his efforts. Not bad. Very good, in fact. Maybe too romantic a conceit, but this, I believed, was the great prize for being born\u2009\u2026\u2009an author. And in the two weeks leading up to Roth\u2019s announcement, this was what I mostly thought about when considering what I would have said if I had remained in my right mind while in his company.<\/p>\n

And now Philip Roth has told us he will no longer write. I wonder, what will he do when boredom sets in?<\/p>\n

Julian Tepper is the author of<\/em> Balls<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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