Philip Roth Personal Library

Philip Roth Personal Library The Philip Roth Personal Library at the Newark Public Library opened on June 8th, 2021. For more inf

Philip Roth loved the Newark Public Library 📚He called it “a place of grandeur,” and entrusted it with his personal coll...
04/30/2026

Philip Roth loved the Newark Public Library đź“š
He called it “a place of grandeur,” and entrusted it with his personal collection of 7,000 books.

Those books are now preserved in the Philip Roth Personal Library. The books —filled with underlinings and annotations — offer scholars and students of Roth direct access to the sources that shaped his thinking and his fiction.

The Philip Roth Personal Library is open during regular library hours and available by appointment.

Don't hesitate to get in touch with Joshua Prager at 973‑733‑3614 or [email protected].

Read what Roth wrote. Read what Roth read.

Philip Roth Lecture, October 21st, 2025The Newark Public Library, 5:30 PM – 9 PMThis year’s Philip Roth Lecture will be ...
10/02/2025

Philip Roth Lecture, October 21st, 2025
The Newark Public Library, 5:30 PM – 9 PM

This year’s Philip Roth Lecture will be a conversation.

The Newark Public Library welcomes Steven Zipperstein, whose new Roth biography, Stung By Life, will be published this October.

The Library is the second stop on the author’s book tour. He will be in conversation with novelist Sam Graham-Felsen, previously the Historian of the library’s Philip Roth Personal Library.

The new Zipperstein Roth biography stands out as “a work of literature itself” (Judith Thurman), and as a “revelatory portrayal” of Roth, “solemn and hilarious, voraciously curious, a boundless sensual spirit riven by his craft” (Sean Wilentz)—the biography’s intelligence and prose capture Roth’s powers of observation and linguistic wit.

The author will be on hand to sign books following the presentation.

Please join us for a free creative writing workshop, "The Basics of Poetry Writing", featuring Margie “Mia X” Johnson, ...
09/15/2025

Please join us for a free creative writing workshop, "The Basics of Poetry Writing", featuring Margie “Mia X” Johnson, Newark's inaugural Poet Laureate! Space is limited.

Thursday 9/18/25 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Philip Roth Personal Library, NPL Main Library, 2nd Floor

Register Here: www.npl.org/miaxworkshop

Please join us for our next free creative writing workshop at the Newark Public Library main branch!
02/10/2025

Please join us for our next free creative writing workshop at the Newark Public Library main branch!

This Thursday! Please note room change -- the event is now in the teen room on the 3rd floor.
11/19/2024

This Thursday! Please note room change -- the event is now in the teen room on the 3rd floor.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE 2024 PHILIP ROTH LECTURE ROTH & BARAKA: TWO VISIONS | A LECTURE BY JOHN KEENEWEDNESDAY | OCTOBER ...
09/18/2024

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE 2024 PHILIP ROTH LECTURE ROTH & BARAKA: TWO VISIONS | A LECTURE BY JOHN KEENE
WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 16, 2024 | 5:30-9:00 PM | NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Contact Janet Mateo, [email protected] or call 973.733.7744 to register.

Philip Roth on the writing life
09/10/2024

Philip Roth on the writing life

Announcing the 2024 Philip Roth Lecture!OCTOBER 16, 2024 | 5:30–9:00 PM ROTH & BARAKA: TWO VISIONS A LECTURE BY JOHN KEE...
07/31/2024

Announcing the 2024 Philip Roth Lecture!

OCTOBER 16, 2024 | 5:30–9:00 PM

ROTH & BARAKA: TWO VISIONS A LECTURE BY JOHN KEENE

John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas (2015), which received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication, Punks: New & Selected Poems (2021), received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He has translated poetry and fiction by an array of authors and his translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s Letters from a Seducer appeared in 2014 in joint publication by Nightboat Books (US) and A Bolha Editor (Brazil). A 2018 MacArthur Fellow and member of the African Poetry Book Fund editorial board, he is Distinguished Professor and has served as department chair at Rutgers University–Newark.

Reminder: free writing workshop at Newark Public Library Main Branch next Wed!
07/12/2024

Reminder: free writing workshop at Newark Public Library Main Branch next Wed!

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