This weekend, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center will present 'Philip Roth Unbound,' a sprawling celebration of the author's life and legacy, to coincide with what would have been his 90th birthday.
Donate NowAuthor Philip Roth is as synonymous with New Jersey as Bruce Springsteen, diners and "Sopranos" memes. So it makes perfect sense that this weekend, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center will present, a sprawling celebration of Roth's life and legacy, to coincide with what would have been his 90th birthday.
The event takes place March 17 to 19, and will include over 40 prominent writers, actors, journalists, artists and public intellectuals celebrating and debating Roth's legacy. Included among more than a dozen events are tours of the Philip Roth Personal Library at the Newark Public Library, narrated by actor Morgan Spector, and Philip Roth Bus Tours of Newark.
"The reality that our government may not always serve us the way it should," he said, "and that we need to really be mindful and protective of our democracy... I mean, what could be more meaningful today than that?"
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