Not Bread Alone: Litchfield County road trip brings on delicious dining
Frank Whitman
FacebookTwitterEmail
The award-winning White Horse Country Pub and Restaurant is a destination in Washington, CT.Frank Whitman / For Hearst Connecticut Media
We needed a ham for Easter dinner and there’s none better than from Nodine’s Smokehouse upstate in Goshen. Delivery was an easy option; they’re happy to ship. But Goshen is a delightful drive and just over an hour away.
The idea of a road trip to pick up a ham grew into an early spring ride that included a nice lunch and some lovely scenery a worthy excuse to get out of the house.
Miramax/Courtesy Everett Collection
Nicole Kidman played Faunia Farley, a college janitor, in the 2003 movie version of Philip Roth s 2000 novel The Human Stain.
An exclusive preview from Blake Bailey s new biography of the great American author reveals just how much he hated seeing his novels turned into movies but that he did have a soft spot for leading ladies, including the Human Stain star, who rebuffed him, saying: Tell him to grow up!
In “Philip Roth and Film,” the critic Ira Nadel claimed that “Roth takes pride in the proposed filming and production of his work, noting that film dramatically exposes his work to larger audiences.” “Pure rubbish, from the first sentence to the last,” Roth scribbled at the end of Nadel’s paper with his red Flair pen. On the contrary as he once remarked to Hanif Kureishi, a screenwriter (
A masterful writer obsessively preoccupied with whether and how he’d be valued by history; a deeply sensitive charmer with a real mean streak; a transgressive who disavowed the labels usually affixed to Jewish writers, but who wanted his work to be understood in the company of the Jewish greats.
If Philip Roth wasn’t a good man, he was certainly an original one.
Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company
Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth.”
Capturing the problem of Roth became the task of Blake Bailey, the literary biographer who, after writing about the lives of Richard Yates, John Cheever and Charles Jackson, turned to Roth. It was a fraught assignment from the start: Roth had first chosen a friend, Ross Miller, to write his biography, a decision that led to the acrimonious dissolution of their friendship, and, predictably, the Miller biography to boot. For Bailey, a biographer who had never previously worked with a living subject, it wasn’t the easiest choice of a next chapter.