Speak. Words.
A new podcast by performer and director Daniel Isengart that celebrates the spoken word, presenting excerpts from literature, poems and spoken versions of song lyrics.
Speak. Words.
The Human Stain (Excerpt), by Philip Roth
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Daniel Isengart
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In The Human Stain, written in 2001, Philip Roth provocatively examines the drama of racial identity and identity politics in America through an intriguing lens. The book is written as a reconstructed biography of Coleman Silk, a literature professor with a dark secret. In this scene, the publicly disgraced Silk has an epiphany as his lover, a survivor with a story of her own, opens herself up to him and sees him in a way no one ever has.