Author Philip Roth is as synonymous with New Jersey as Bruce Springsteen, diners and "Sopranos" memes. So it makes perfect sense that this weekend, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center will present Philip Roth Unbound, a sprawling celebration of Roth's life and legacy, to coincide with what would have been his 90th birthday.

In a conversation with WNYC's Morning Edition host Michael Hill and actor, playwright and author Eric Bogosian, NJPAC president and CEO John Schreiber said hosting an event in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Newark native, who died in 2018, was a no-brainer.

"It's safe to say that Philip Roth may be the most significant American fiction writer of the last 75 years," Schreiber said.