Philip Roth's first publication out...

Philip Roth's first publication outside of the Bucknell body literary magazine was a story called "The Day It Snowed"; it appeared in the Fall 1954 issue of Chicago Review. Roth later told Molly McQuade, "It's a story by way of someone who's twenty years ancient That's all you can really say about it."(*) ROTH had more to say to us about this brief essay, which appeared in the Spring 1957 issue:

The Eisenhower piece was my secondary publication in the Chicago Review. My friend George Starbuck, the author of poems was an editor at the review, and it was alone natural to give the