Marco Roth

Marco Roth (born 1974) in New York, New York is a co-founder and editor of n+1 magazine.^[1][2]

Life

Roth is a graduate of The Dalton School and Columbia University. In 2009, he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts,^[3] and the Roger Shattuck prize for literary criticism in 2011.^[4] He lives in Philadelphia.^[5]

Essays and criticism

His work has appeared in the Dissent,^[6] New York Times, Harper's, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and the Nation.^[7] His memoir, The Scientists: A Family Romance, about his father's death and "truths and limitations in literature",^[8] came out in 2012.^[9]

Selected works

• "I don't Want Your Revolution" London Review of Books. 20 February 2014.
• "Among The Believers" Harper's Magazine. October, 2015.
• "Belgrade: History-of-the-Present" Places Journal, October 2015.
• "An insular view of the Nobel prize". The Guardian. 8 October 2008. 
• "A Year in Reading: Marco Roth". The Millions. December 11, 2009. 
• "Enduring Love". Tablet. July 19, 2007. 

Selected Articles published in n+1

• "Derrida: An Autothanatography" A memoir/obituary about Roth/Derrida.
• "I'm with Stupid" - About Michael Moore and our values."
• "On Torture And Parenting" On the psychology of American torturers and behavioral therapists.
• "Attack of the Clones" On Houellebecq, Ishiguro, and the idea of the clone in contemporary fiction.
• "Lower the Voting Age!" Argument to lower the voting age to 16.
• "Rise of the Neuronovel" Neurology vs. Modernism in Contemporary Fiction.
• "Throwback Throwdown" On the rhetoric of "sampling" in contemporary writing.
• "The Information Essay" On the informational sublime in the contemporary essay.
• "The Drone Philosopher" On Drones and the imagination.

Interviews

• "Young Critics: Marco Roth". Full Stop. 22 June 2011.
• "Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me #14." The Rumpus. January 4, 2013.

References

1. ↑ "n+1: Marco Roth". Nplusonemag.com. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 
2. ↑ Scott, A. o (2005-09-11). "Among the Believers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-02-16. 
3. ↑ "Marco Roth". The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 
4. ↑ "Roger Shattuck Prizes for Criticism: Lila Azam Zanaganeh and Marco Roth". www.centerforfiction.org. Retrieved 2017-02-16. 
5. ↑ "Marco Roth". Retrieved 2017-02-16. 
6. ↑ Roth, Marco. "Fall 2010 Issue - The Credit Crisis and". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 
7. ↑ "Marco Roth: The Rise of the Neuronovel". RN Book Show. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 
8. ↑ "Close Reading: Marco Roth’s Memoir Began as Revenge, But Turned Into Something Far More Complicated". Observer. 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2017-02-16. 
9. ↑ "n+1's Marco Roth Sells a Memoir to FSG". The New York Observer. 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-11-11. 

External links

• "Franz the Obscure" - Kafka: The Decisive Years,' by Reiner Stach Review by Roth in The New York Times, (Published: January 1, 2006).
• "Shalimar the Clown" Review of Salman Rushdie in Times Literary Supplement.
• "Marco Roth: The Rise of the Neuronovel", The Book Store, 3 February 2010
• http://www.npr.org/2012/09/12/161003574/the-scientists-a-fathers-lie-and-a-familys-legacy
• https://newrepublic.com/article/107405/marco-roth-the-scientists-a-family-romance