 First edition | |
| Author | Philip Roth |
|---|---|
| Subject | Writing |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Publication date | September 25, 2001 |
| Pages | 160 |
| ISBN | 0-618-15314-4 |
| OCLC | 46683862 |
| 809/.045 21 | |
| LC Class | PN452 .R68 2001 |
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work is a collection of previously published interviews with important 20th-century writers by novelist Philip Roth. Among the writers interviewed are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien. In addition, the book contains a discussion with Mary McCarthy about Roth's novel The Counterlife and a New Yorker essay on Saul Bellow. Roth's trip to Israel to interview Appelfeld inspired his novel Operation Shylock.