In anticipation of Philip Roth’s 80th birthday next month, New York Magazine pulled together a collection of thirty literati to discuss Roth and his oeuvre, publishing the results on their Vulture website.  Among the questions the panelists consider are:

• Is Roth the greatest living American novelist?
• What is Roth’s best book?
• What do you admire or dislike most about Roth?
• Is Roth a minsogynst?
• What do you make of all of Roth’s alter egos?
• What is Roth’s greatest subject?
• Does Roth deserve to win the Nobel Prize?