{"id":9004,"date":"2012-12-17T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2018-10-01T16:52:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T16:52:05","slug":"the-scientists-a-family-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2012\/12\/17\/the-scientists-a-family-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scientists: A Family Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On November 15, 2012, I interviewed Marco Roth about his 2012 memoir The Scientists: A Family Romance<\/a><\/strong>, described by Lorin Stein of the Paris Review as<\/em><\/p>\n

“…the first intellectual autobiography by someone our age in the searching nineteenth-century tradition of Edmund Gosse or Henry Adams: the autobiography equally of a reader and of a son, grappling with an inheritance that is both intellectual and emotional–and education for our times.”
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I first met Marco Roth in October 2010 when I interviewed him and Keith Gessen<\/a> about the founding of their literary magazine n+1<\/a><\/strong>, where both of them are currently editors.\u00a0 Since Marco lives in Philadelphia, I run into him from time to time, and, hearing about his book, I asked him if he would talk to me about it. He kindly agreed. The Scientists: A Family Romance is a beautifully written book that I highly recommend.<\/p>\n

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