The Short List of Things to Do
A guide to what you should see and what you should skip — and what you won't be able to avoid
A young Newark, N.J., Jew heads off to college to grapple with the alien demands of the goyische world in this bizarre, flawed little book. Told in flat, uninflected prose — it reads like Portnoy's Complaint on sedatives — it's full of huge chunks of undigested philosophy and dialogue that could not possibly be spoken by a human being. It's hard to believe Roth used to be witty.
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