Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work

"No single theme ties all of these conversations and critical fragments together, but Mr. Roth's thoughts about Malamud and Kafka show one subject common to several of them. Kafka is present throughout....One could say that, Ms. McCarthy and Ms. O'Brien excepted, the writers that Mr. Roth deals with in this volume are bound together by their post-Kafka sensibility. They are the ones who lived the reality that was Kafka's nightmare...."Philip Roth is the author of 'Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work', published 2002 under ISBN 9780375714139 and ISBN 0375714138.