Editors' Note

It is perhaps far too obvious to say that this journal would be nothing without the executive board of the Philip Roth Society. But we wanted to reflect further on that fact in this issue in order to thank in these pages the officers for their work in general and also to underline their specific contributions both to "Roth Remembered" and the legacy of Philip Roth Studies beyond the year 2020.

Many of us would count walking the Manhattan streets in the neighborhood of NYU—heading toward the "Roth Remembered" conference for a day of sessions, or away from it with Roth Society friends on the way to get drinks, or around the buildings between panels, catching up with kindred scholars we have known, now, for decades—among the highpoints of our careers. We thank Matthew Shipe and Maggie McKinley for organizing this event and for giving us all a reason to engage in person with each other and with the work of the author who has brought us together from the start. We knew, as incoming executive editors of Roth Studies starting in 2019, that our first special issue would commemorate this important event, and we were so pleased when Matthew and Andy Connolly agreed to co-edit the issue you now hold in your hands. The work it takes to organize an issue like this is sometimes all-consuming; the passion it takes can neither be faked nor manufactured. We thank Matthew and Andy for sharing their knowledge, their work, and their passion—three attributes that will be immediately obvious as you read the essays they have gathered here.

We further thank Matthew for the work he did to advocate for keeping Philip Roth Studies in print for as long as current Roth Society members request it. As you may know by now, we are working with Purdue ultimately to phase out print editions of this journal. While we believe that, for the future of scholarship and the planet, the Press's desire to evolve primarily to an online platform is both well intended and justified, we are grateful to have the option of continuing to run a limited print issue for current, long-standing members for as long as we need. We are pleased to bring in the new decade with a firm grounding in the tradition of the print journal that Derek Parker Royal established and a project for future, sustainable, and widely accessible scholarship.