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 Bailey, the literary biographer who, after writing about the lives of Richard Yates, John Cheever and Cha...
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