The Human Stain
Among the admirers of Roth's work is famed New Jersey singer Bruce Springsteen. Roth read the musician's autobiography "Born to Run" and Springsteen read Roth's "American Pastoral", "I Married A Communist", and "The Human Stain". Springsteen said of Roth's work: "I'll tell you, those three recent books by Philip Roth just knocked me on my ass... To be in his sixties making work that is so strong, so full of revelations about love and emotional pain, that's the way to live your artistic life. Sustain, sustain, sustain."