Philip Roth Personal Library

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Announcing the 2024 Philip Roth Lecture!

OCTOBER 16, 2024 | 5:30–9:00 PM

ROTH & BARAKA: TWO VISIONS A LECTURE BY JOHN KEENE

John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas (2015), which received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication, Punks: New & Selected Poems (2021), received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He has translated poetry and fiction by an array of authors and his translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s Letters from a Seducer appeared in 2014 in joint publication by Nightboat Books (US) and A Bolha Editor (Brazil). A 2018 MacArthur Fellow and member of the African Poetry Book Fund editorial board, he is Distinguished Professor and has served as department chair at Rutgers University–Newark.