RIP, Philip Roth

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Less than a week after I went through my box of caricature originals for Tom Wolfe, I hauled the box out again to unearth images of Philip Roth, who died yesterday. These caricatures were all printed in The New York Observer. Roth with Steve Martin:

David Chelsea is reading:
Nemesis by Philip Roth

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With John Updike:

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My favorite Roth books were The Counterlife, The Plot Against America, and Nemesis. One of these days I’ll have to read Sabbath’s Theater: sabbaththeater