"I didn't know it would be my last book, but I was months trying to start something new, and I wasn't having any success, and it occurred to me I didn't have to do this anymore," he says. Roth made news last year when he announced his retirement from writing - in fact, he has a Post-it note in his apartment that says "the struggle with writing is over." Roth says he didn't quite realize at first that he'd retired, but the idea began to grow on him after he finished Nemesis. Roth tells NPR's Scott Simon that all the hoopla has been "quite wonderful." The Library of America has just completed its nine volume complete collection of Roth's works - from 1959's Goodbye, Columbus to 2010's Nemesis - and PBS is airing a film called Philip Roth: Unmasked, as part of its American Masters series. a city he left long ago, but often returns to in his books - honored the man often acclaimed as America's greatest living novelist with a marching band, a birthday cake in the shape of books piled high and lots of symposia. Philip Roth turned 80 years old this week, and his hometown of Newark, N.J. The Library of America recently published the ninth and final volume of a complete collection of Philip Roth's works, and a new documentary on PBS looks back on his prolific career.
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