"Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human.... Yet another example of [his] clarity of purpose and singular intelligence." --
The New York Times Book Review "[Roth] brings out something adamantine and irreducible about each of his interlocutors.... Ring[s] with what his readers will recognize as...Rothian intelligence." --
The New York Times "Fascinating glimpses of some of the deans of postwar literature [and] a working diagram of the very engine that makes Roth run." --
Los Angeles Times Book Review