This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the second half of THE HUMAN STAIN by Philip Roth. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “It is 1998, the year American is plunged into a frenzy prurience by the impeachment of a president. In small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist…This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America - a story of seismic shifts in US history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.”