Pictures of Malamud
Philip Roth, 8 May 1986
‘Mourning is a hard business,’ Cesare said. ‘If people knew there’d be less death.’
From Malamud’s ‘Life is Better than Death’
In February 1961 I travelled west from Iowa City, where I was teaching in the Writers’ Workshop of the university and finishing a second book, to give a lecture called ‘Writing American Fiction’ at...