Jersey’s literary lion Philip Roth still roars at 80 (via NJ.com)

NEWARK — It’s hard to break a habit, especially when that habit has saddled you with the status, “living legend.” Just ask Philip Roth. Isolated from the world, a novelist’s life is unenviable, Roth often says. So if his readers were perplexed and dismayed when he announced his retirement…