{"id":2029,"date":"2008-05-01T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2008-05-01T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:06:20","slug":"sun-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sun-roth","title":{"rendered":"Sun Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nysun.com\/arts\" target=\"_blank\">New York Sun&#8217;s Arts+ section<\/a> continues to defend its title as Official Newspaper of Gil Roth (and several other Roths, as seen in #s 1 and 2):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nysun.com\/arts\/dieter-roth-gladstone-gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Roth Time Redux<\/a>, discussing the impact of Dieter Roth,<\/li>\n<li>a new exhibition on <a href=\"http:\/\/nysun.com\/arts\/philip-guston-morgan-library-and-museum\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Guston<\/a>, with a shout-out to Philip Roth,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nysun.com\/arts\/moma-celebrates-leone-s-greatest-western\" target=\"_blank\">MoMA&#8217;s screening<\/a> of Sergio Leone&#8217;s <em>Once Upon a Time in the West<\/em>,<\/li>\n<li>Daphne Merkin <a href=\"http:\/\/nysun.com\/arts\/daphne-merkin-mad-bad-and-sad\" target=\"_blank\">reviewing a book on the history of crazy-ass women<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<li>and an <a href=\"http:\/\/nysun.com\/arts\/fight-over-1948\" target=\"_blank\">absolute smackdown of Benny Morris&#8217; version<\/a> of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Even better: my coworkers believe the <em>Sun<\/em> must be &#8220;too conservative,&#8221; so they avoid reading it in the lunchroom, leaving me a pristine copy! However, since the owner of our company canceled our subscription to the <em>NYTimes<\/em>, which he believes is &#8220;too liberal,&#8221; the only other choices are the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> and the<em> NYPost<\/em>. . .<\/p>\n<p><em>(BONUS! Today&#8217;s Sun also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/nysun.com\/news\/airlines-charge\" target=\"_blank\">John Stossel op-ed piece<\/a> on why the FAA&#8217;s inspections of airlines (and governmental inspections in general) are useless at best.)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s edition of the New York Sun&#8217;s Arts+ section continues to defend its title as Official Newspaper of Gil Roth (and several other Roths, as seen in #s 1 and 2): Roth Time Redux, discussing the impact of Dieter Roth, a new exhibition on Philip Guston, with a shout-out to Philip Roth, MoMA&#8217;s screening of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sun-roth\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sun Roth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,4,17,20],"tags":[130,129,128],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-literature","category-politics-explicit","category-religion","tag-arts","tag-israel","tag-new-york-sun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-wJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7839,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/roth-on-roth-action","url_meta":{"origin":2029,"position":0},"title":"Roth on Roth action","author":"Gil","date":"April 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like PBS has the entire Philip Roth ep. of its American Masters series free online! He remains #1 on my dream-list of guests for the podcast. Yesterday's interview, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, told me that she's acquaintances with him, but I doubt that'll be enough to get my foot in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14742,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-453-nadine-sergejeff","url_meta":{"origin":2029,"position":1},"title":"Episode 453 &#8211; Nadine Sergejeff","author":"Gil","date":"September 28, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 453: Nadine Sergejeff \"What you see when you enter the Philip Roth Personal Library are about three-thousand, seven hundred and twenty books* that have marginalia, are presentation copies, or are otherwise special.\" [* Librarians are very exact] It's part 2 of a 2-part show about the new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergejeffcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C494&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1922,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-official-newspaper-of-gil-roth","url_meta":{"origin":2029,"position":2},"title":"The official newspaper of Gil Roth","author":"Gil","date":"February 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently, we began receiving the New York Sun, I think as an add-on to our Wall Street Journal subscription. I'm not entirely sure. I mean, I do know that the owner of our company canceled our office subscription to the New York Times a few years ago because he, um,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15292,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-489-ira-nadel","url_meta":{"origin":2029,"position":3},"title":"Episode 489 &#8211; Ira Nadel","author":"Gil","date":"June 7, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 489: Ira Nadel \"Roth left so many instructions and prescriptive statements about how things should happen after his death, that he was really trying to \u2014 to use a phrase uttered by the gravedigger in Everyman \u2014 square the hole.\" Professor & biographer Ira Nadel joins the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/nadelcomp.jpg?fit=1063%2C800&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14732,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-452-rosemary-steinbaum","url_meta":{"origin":2029,"position":4},"title":"Episode 452 &#8211; Rosemary Steinbaum","author":"Gil","date":"September 21, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 452: Rosemary Steinbaum \"His reading and his writing are intertwined. That's the main theme of the Philip Roth Personal Library: a writer at work reading and a reader at work writing.\" It's part 1 of a 2-part show about the new Philip Roth Personal Library at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/steinbaumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C535&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14719,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-451-jacques-berlinerblau","url_meta":{"origin":2029,"position":5},"title":"Episode 451 &#8211; Jacques Berlinerblau","author":"Gil","date":"September 14, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 451: Jacques Berlinerblau \"I think what's different about Roth is the wink and the nod and the game; he's signaling to us in his fiction that he's writing about events and people that are very close to him, and yet repeatedly denied doing so. No one else\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/berlinerblaucomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/berlinerblaucomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/berlinerblaucomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/berlinerblaucomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/berlinerblaucomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}