On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museumâs Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the eveningâs speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected in the Library of America series. Here youâll find Jonathan Lethem, hilariously recounting his first consciousness-raising encounter with Rothâs work through the Kafkaesque novel The Breast; Hermione Lee, tracing the Shakespearian themes in Rothâs books, from Portnoyâs Complaint to The Humbling; Alain Finkielkraut, offering a deep reading of Rothâs final novel, Nemesis; Claudia Roth Pierpont, assessing Rothâs portrayal of women in such books as Sabbathâs Theater and The Human Stain; Edna OâBrien, recalling her long friendship with Roth; and the author himself, offering a quintessentially Rothian valediction.