Past PRPL Events & Roth Lectures

PAST PROGRAMS:

PHILIP ROTH BOOK CLUB:

9/9/2023: A Discussion of Portnoy’s Complaint with host Steven Sampson. Recording.

5/20/2023: A Discussion of Nemesis with host Jon Curley. Recording.

1/21/2023: A Discussion of Goodbye, Columbus with host Steven Zipperstein. Recording.

11/5/2022: A Discussion of Patrimony with host Jesse Tisch. Recording.

9/10/2022: A Discussion of American Pastoral with host Aimee Pozorski. Recording.

6/18/2022: A Discussion of The Counterlife with host Matthew Shipe. Recording.

5/21/2022: A Discussion of Indignation with host James D. Bloom. Recording.

3/19/2022: A Discussion of The Ghost Writer with host Ira Nadel. Recording.

VIRTUAL PROGRAMS:

7/21/2023 PRPL Ask the Librarian Episode 5. Recording.

7/6/2023 PRPL Ask the Librarian Episode 4. Recording.

6/15/2023 PRPL Ask the Librarian Episode 3. Recording.

6/8/2023 PRPL Ask the Librarian Episode 2. Recording.

6/1/2023 PRPL Ask the Librarian Episode 1. Recording.

12/29/2021: The PRPL: A Virtual Overview, Part III: On the Margins. Recording.

10/12/2021: The PRPL: A Virtual Overview, Part II: In Between the Pages. Recording.

8/12/2021: The PRPL: A Virtual Overview, Part I. Recording.

6/4/2020: A Reading & Conversation with Benjamin Taylor. Recording.

4/21/2020: A Conversation about HBO’s The Plot Against America. Recording.

6/26/2020: A Discussion about Philip Roth’s Nemesis and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Recording.

AUTHOR TALKS:

12/1/2022: Author talk with Faleeha Hassan, War and Me: A Memoir. Recording.

PHILIP ROTH UNBOUND: ILLUMINATING A LITERARY LEGACY:

3/17-19/2023 A weekend-long festival hosted by the NJ Performing Arts Center that celebrated, challenged and explored the life, legacy and work of novelist and Newark-native Philip Roth. Featured star-studded readings, conversations, comedy, controversy and debate with over forty of the most prominent writers, actors, journalists, artists and public intellectuals working today.

WRITING CONTEST:

The Newark Public Library and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center hosted a city-wide writing contest for high school-age youth living in Newark. The two first-place winners read their works during the program, “My Newark,” at the NJ Performing Arts Center on March 17, 2023, as part of the Philip Roth Festival. An anthology of the top 14 pieces has been produced. A limited quantity of hard copies are available in the Philip Roth Personal Library. Also available online.

poetry/storySLAM:

9/26/2023: Hosted by Joseph Reuben Fuller

CONFERENCE:

11/16/2021: Conflicts Depicting Race & Ethnicity in Fiction, 1962 and 2021: Philip Roth, Ralph Ellison, and Pietro Di Donato. Recording, Part I - Recording, Part II

ANNUAL PHILIP ROTH LECTURES:

2023 Philip Roth Lecture featuring Dr. John Wesley Johnson, Jr. Recording will be made available soon.

2022 Philip Roth Lecture featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jelani Cobb. Not recorded.

2021 Philip Roth Lecture featuring Ayad Akhtar. Recording.

2020 Philip Roth Lecture featuring Tracy K. Smith. Recording.

2019 Philip Roth Lecture featuring Sean Wilentz. Recording.

2018 Philip Roth Lecture featuring Salman Rushdie. Transcript.

2017 Philip Roth Lecture featuring Robert Caro. Recording.

2016 Philip Roth Inaugural Lecture featuring Zadie Smith. Not recorded.