Talking with Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey – The Forward
A masterful writer obsessively preoccupied with whether and how he’d be valued by history; a deeply sensitive charmer with a real mean streak; a transgressive who disavowed the labels usually affixed to Jewish writers, but who wanted his work to be understood in the company of the Jewish greats. If Philip Roth wasn’t a good man, he was certainly an original one. Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Company Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth.” Capturing the problem of Roth became the task of Blake Baile...
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