A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend. Philip Roth’s place in the canon is secure, but less clear is what the man himself was like. In Benjamin Taylor’s beautifully constructed memoir, we see Roth as a mortal man, experiencing the joys and sorrows of aging, reflecting on his own writing, and doing something we all love to do: passing the time in the company of his closest friend. An ode to friendship and its wondrous ability to brighten our lives in unexpected ways, Here We Are pays tribute to a friend in the way that only a writer can. Roth encouraged Taylor to write this book, giving him explicit instructions not to sugarcoat anything and not to publish it until after his death.