The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also …

- Marco Roth

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

- Marco Roth

I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, an…

- Marco Roth

My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange tree…

- Marco Roth

There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They c…

- Marco Roth

Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now about people's r…

- Marco Roth

I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that inter…

- Marco Roth

My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing t…

- Marco Roth

There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other person, and their m…

- Marco Roth