(np) so it goes

[Raphael Saltwood]

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The review suggests problematic views that make this not such a surprise - like Mailer, perhaps, Roth’s oeuvre (and private life) imho

went back and forth across some lines that

are still being clarified. That protégé of

Mailer’s, Jack Henry Abbott, helped to

clarify what not to do!

David Foster Wallace also springs to mind, &

that Oscar Wao guy Junot

Diaz, & for that matter, Jack Kerouac & even

Salinger, not to mention Californication  - the mostly pernicious

myth of the hard drinking oversexed author whose

wild life informs his fiction & whose oeuvre

excuses his misdeeds, & whose example

inspires young authors, needs serious retooling,

doesn’t it?

Bailey will never be the luminary Roth was &

hence is excusable of less -

but he was also apparently more flagrant.



Erik T. Burns wrote:

Unfortunately, Bailey's been #metoo'd:
http://web.archive.org/web/20210422162840/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/books/philip-roth-blake-bailey.html

with reason, apparently. which makes it all the more unfortunate.

the publisher is "pausing" distribution & PR for the book, and he was fired
by his agents.






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