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Books by Philip Roth mentioned on podcasts
American Pastoral is Philip Roth’s most mentioned book on podcasts, brought up in 7 episodes across 5 podcasts (0 episodes with a recommendation). In all, 17 books by Philip Roth have come up in 43 episodes on 7 podcasts, led by American Pastoral (7 episodes), Sabbath's Theater (6 episodes) and The Plot Against America (5 episodes), through .
Questions about books by Philip Roth
What is Philip Roth's most mentioned book on podcasts?
American Pastoral is Philip Roth's most mentioned book on podcasts, discussed in 7 episodes across 5 podcasts without an explicit recommendation, as of September 11, 2026.
How many of Philip Roth's books come up on podcasts?
17 books by Philip Roth come up on podcasts: 17 books across 43 episodes on 7 podcasts, as of September 11, 2026.
Who recommends books by Philip Roth?
Blake Bailey (1 episode), Harlan Coben (1 episode) and John Williams (1 episode) have recommended books by Philip Roth on podcasts.
Which podcasts mention Philip Roth most?
The Book Review (16 episodes), How I Write (2 episodes), The Tucker Carlson Show (2 episodes), Conversations with Tyler (1 episode) and EconTalk (1 episode), among 7 podcasts in all.
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American Pastoral
Discussed“Right before this I had read American Pastoral. Before that I was reading classics because I had gone to a yeshiva where I felt that we were not like prepared to go out into the world literature-wise.”
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Sabbath's Theater
Discussed“what did he think was his best work oh Sabbath theater hand down which which I I don't agree with by the way”
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The Plot Against America
Discussed“There was an interview a few years back uh with Winona Ryder when she made um the TV series of that Philip Roth book um Plot Against America or Plot Against the United States.”
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Portnoy's Complaint
Recommended“two of my favorite books of the you know when I was sort of coming of age poor noise complaint by Philip Roth and Bonfire the Vanities by Tom Wolf both are horrendous films unwatchable”
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The Ghost Writer
Recommended“I love the ghost riter which is the first Suman novel”
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Goodbye, Columbus
Discussed“goodbye Columbus sprung from the head of Zeus when he was 25 and won him the national book award at age 26”
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Patrimony
Discussed“patrimony by Philip Roth”
Speaker The Book Review The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone 2024-07-18 Listen at 36:23Where to get it
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Letting go
Critiqued“and he wrote letting go and letting go is insufferable except for those set pieces where he's being funny”
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When she was good
Discussed“and then he tried to be like Flo bear and he wrote when she was good and he found himself again”
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The Anatomy Lesson
Recommended“and then I read for the first time the next two Zuckerman Unbound and now I'm about a third of the way through the anatomy lesson”
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Zuckerman unbound
Recommended“and then I read for the first time the next two Zuckerman Unbound and now I'm about a third of the way through the anatomy lesson”
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Conversion of Jews
Discussed“There's a Philip Roth book conversion to the Jews uh it's a short story yeah I never read it it's about uh it's pretty good and uh and uh yeah Philip Roth”
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Exit Ghost
Discussed“yeah he did a little the there was this there was this moment in exit ghost where he's exiled himself to Connecticut”
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Fifty Best American Short Stories
Discussed“so we've got best American essays and best American short stories”
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Indignation
Discussed“I picked up indignation which is one of the few I hadn't read before and it's a later novel yeah it's a later novel”
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The Counterlife
Discussed“sensing the counterlife coming out and the counterlife is the one for me the counterlife is”
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The Human Stain
Discussed“there's the zukerman trilogy which introduces this character of Nathan zukerman who would be also the perceiving consciousness of uh American pastoral and Human Stain”
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