bostonreview:

Philip Roth retires: “I have dedicated my life to the novel: I studied, I taught, I wrote and I read. With the exclusion of almost everything else. Enough is enough! I no longer feel this fanaticism to write what I have experienced in my life.”

The Salon article says the story broke in a French magazine called Les Inrocks, and then goes on to reveal something else:

(The interview is published in French; we used an Internet program to translate his quotes into English. We asked his publisher, Houghton Mifflin, for confirmation. They reached out to Roth this morning. “He said it was true,” said Lori Glazer, vice president and executive director of publicity.)

So, apparently no one on the staff of Salon can read French, and they rely on Google translate in cases like this. Ouch. C’est triste.

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