June 25th, 2009 / 12:32 pm
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Phillip Roth: The Dance Mix

I like the way you do that right thurr...

Back that ass up...

This morning on the Melville House blog, Moby Lives, editor Kelly Burdick posted a dance track featuring Phillip Roth doing some “Jewish Shouting.” DJ James Marcus, critic, translator and author of Amazonia, is responsible for the madness.  Marcus interviewed Roth last September for the LA Times, and during the interview,  Roth gave Marcus an example of what he called “Jewish Shouting,” which Marcus (who is also a musician) turned into a short dance track. You can find the track here. You have basically not lived until you can dance to the wails of Phillip Roth.

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25 Comments

  1. Sabra

      Oh my god that’s retarded.

  2. Sabra

      Oh my god that’s retarded.

  3. Cuauhtémoc Cortés Corrado

      Anti-Semite

  4. Cuauhtémoc Cortés Corrado

      Anti-Semite

  5. Sabra

      It’s only bunnies I hate. Easter. Bugs.

  6. Sabra

      It’s only bunnies I hate. Easter. Bugs.

  7. audri

      intergalactic planetary

  8. audri

      intergalactic planetary

  9. andrew

      i just read portnoys complaint, and i hated it. what is a really good roth book? is there such a thing?

  10. andrew

      i just read portnoys complaint, and i hated it. what is a really good roth book? is there such a thing?

  11. andrew

      its a kind of weak shout

  12. andrew

      its a kind of weak shout

  13. pr

      Read American Pastoral or Sabbath’s Theater. The Counterlife. Operation Shylock. Zuckerman Bound (that’s four books). I don’t like his early stuff, either as much. Portnoy’s and When she was good…eh…also I don’t like his Kapesh books as much as his Zuckerman books. But when he’s good- NO ONE is better. He’s one of my faves.

  14. darby

      planetary intergalactic

  15. darby

      planetary intergalactic

  16. Heath

      Is this really Darby posting all this or is this Ryan Manning?

  17. Heath

      Is this really Darby posting all this or is this Ryan Manning?

  18. darby

      it’s me, darby. hi!

  19. darby

      it’s me, darby. hi!

  20. Sabra

      I just finished Portnoy’s Complaint and aside from the shock value of making love to lunch meat and serving it to your family or having one’s way with a cored apple type shenanigans, I had a few good laughs. The book was recommended when I mentioned to a playwright friend something about sex in books making easy best sellers. I told him how much I liked the way humor took the edge off dark-age-esque taboos. He claimed Roth made the ultimate Godzilla book baby from sex and humor in Portnoy. I pretty much agree. It was hard core dirty and fun.

  21. Sabra

      I just finished Portnoy’s Complaint and aside from the shock value of making love to lunch meat and serving it to your family or having one’s way with a cored apple type shenanigans, I had a few good laughs. The book was recommended when I mentioned to a playwright friend something about sex in books making easy best sellers. I told him how much I liked the way humor took the edge off dark-age-esque taboos. He claimed Roth made the ultimate Godzilla book baby from sex and humor in Portnoy. I pretty much agree. It was hard core dirty and fun.

  22. davidpeak

      the first half of the plot against america is mega good.

  23. davidpeak

      the first half of the plot against america is mega good.

  24. reynard

      i liked ‘when she was good’

      bought it randomly because the cover was cool

      apparently it’s the only one with a female protagonist, roth does some interesting stuff with it

  25. reynard

      i liked ‘when she was good’

      bought it randomly because the cover was cool

      apparently it’s the only one with a female protagonist, roth does some interesting stuff with it