American Pastoral - Philip Roth
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English - July 07, 2014 16:36 - 38 minutes - 36 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsArts writing literature getting published books television films authors Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Feel like making glove?? That's not a typo. This week we discuss perhaps the best passage in any of Philip Roth's novels, the 'glovemaking scene' (again, not a typo) in American Pastoral. And we do this with American lit scholar and Gloversville, NY native, Menachem Feuer. Also, we discuss the definition of a schlemiel, a person who could never make a glove. And Franz Kafka makes an appearance at the end – another person we can safely assume was not versed in the art of glovemaking, IN ANY SENSE OF THE WORD. Get that hand out of your pocket and put your headphones on. *heat*.