Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museumâ??s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the eveningâ??s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected in the Library of America series. Here youâ??ll find Jonathan Lethem, hilariously recounting his first consciousness-raising encounter with Rothâ??s work through the Kafkaesque novel The Breast; Hermione Lee, tracing the Shakespearian themes in Rothâ??s books, from Portnoyâ??s Complaint to The Humbling; Alain Finkielkraut, offering a deep reading of Rothâ??s final novel, Nemesis; Claudia Roth Pierpont, assessing Rothâ??s portrayal of women in such books as Sabbathâ??s Theater and The Human Stain; Edna Oâ??Brien, recalling her long friendship with Roth; and the author himself, offering a quintes