![]() “Roth’s house is still there,” he tells The Post. To re-create Roth’s world of 80 years ago, Hoover toured the writer’s hometown, the Weequahic section of Newark. “It’s not as if we were creating a world transformed by an alien invasion.” ![]() ![]() “We decided that accuracy was important,” says production designer Richard Hoover, who oversaw the first three of the show’s six episodes. He even called the couple’s younger son Philip.Īnd so, when David Simon and Ed Burns adapted Roth’s book, they made sure the setting around the working-class, American-Jewish Levin family looked like the real thing. Roth, who died in 2018 at 85, hewed close to his roots in writing about the Levin family in 1940s Newark, NJ. ![]() That 2004 novel is the inspiration for HBO’s new miniseries of the same name, which runs Mondays through April 20. ![]() In “The Plot Against America,” aviator and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh wins the presidential election against Franklin Roosevelt, unleashing a flood of anti-Semitism that leaves families cowering in their homes. Sixteen years before the current pandemic gripped us, writer Philip Roth envisioned a different kind of plague. ![]()
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