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Blake Bailey upheld Philip Roth's legacy in the worst way A best-selling biography of a misogynist, written by an alleged abuser, is almost too apt a metaphor. The cycle of letting bad men write about bad men has to stop.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images May 5, 2021, 7:00 PM UTC "Always it came back to the women," Blake Bailey wrote of novelist (and noted misogynist) Philip Roth in his best-selling biography of Roth's life. For Bailey, too, it seems, it ultimately came back to the women. At the end of April, a series of reports from outlets including The New York Times, The Times-Picayune ofN...

The fall of the intellectual Where have all the great thinkers gone?   In the month before it was pulled by its publisher because of its author’s alleged sexual predations, Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth produced an outpouring of terrifically entertaining reviews in the literary pages of East Coast periodicals – the New Republic, Harper’s and the New Yorker. The essays were a lot of fun; they were also implicitly nostalgic for the novelistic world that Roth so egomaniacally bestrode. At Toni Morrison’s death in 2019 I suggested in the New York Times that she might b...

Writers, biographers protest W.W. Norton’s decision to “permanently” remove Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth from print On April 27, publisher W.W. Norton announced it was “permanently” removing Blake Bailey’s biography of American novelist Philip Roth (1933–2018) from print. Several individuals have accused Bailey of sexual wrongdoing, including rape. None of them have come forward with any evidence to back up the claims. Blake Bailey, 2011 (Photo: David Shankbone) We argued on the WSWS that this was “a major act of censorship, with chilling implications for democrat...

Porsha Williams revealed spicy details about what happened in the Dungeon on Sunday's second reunion episode of The Real Housewives Of Atlanta. The 39-year-old actress and activist had long been coy about what went down during Cynthia Bailey's scandalous bachelorette party during season 13. It was rumored that she had enjoyed a threesome with hired stripper Bolo and her friend Tanya Sam, 42, who then disappeared from the season. Bachelorette details: Porsha Williams revealed spicy details about what happened in the Dungeon on Sunday's second reunion episode of The Real Housewives Of Atlanta ...

Suzanne Harrington: Cancel culture literally cancels culture, it sucks It’s immature, it stifles debate, it nails shut the lids of our echo chambers Cancel culture is unsustainable, and frankly a bit stupid. Can we cancel it? Mon, 03 May, 2021 - 17:46 So here we are again with cancel culture. Turns out that not only was Philip Roth, the 20th-century literary giant, a raging misogynist but that his latest biographer, Blake Bailey, has recently been accused of sexually assaulting two women. No charges have been made against Bailey, and he has denied any wrongdoing. But in response to the all...