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Why I wish I'd never met Philip Roth


Why I wish I d never met Philip Roth
 
 
Blake Bailey’s highly anticipated ‘definitive biography’ of Philip Roth was cancelled by WW Norton at the end of April when Bailey was accused of sexual assault. His agent dropped him; his publisher cancelled the book tour and cut all ties with the author. (The biography has since been picked up by Skyhorse.) I’ve never met Bailey, but I’ll never forget meeting his subject: Philip Roth.
It was a crisp October day in 2002 when we piled into the classroom at Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts. We were young. We were nervous. Soon we’d be talking to a writer who’d won the Pulitzer, the National Book Award (three times), the National Book Critics Circle Award (three times) and the Pen/Faulkner. ....

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Roth, His Biographer, and Liberal Hypocrisy


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The other morning, I read the revelations that Blake Bailey, author of a new, highly acclaimed biography of Philip Roth, had been accused of “grooming” young girls when he taught at a New Orleans middle school in the 1990s, then going on, allegedly, to grope them, and rape two of them when they were adults. The episode puts me in mind not of a novel by Roth (a predictable response), or of similar recent scandals. Instead, I thought of Daniel Bell’s classic work,
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
Of the many paradoxes Bell explores, one haunts the imagination of liberals and conservatives alike. As the consumerist marketplace thrives by developing new frontiers of appetite and desire, Bell argued, the values of right and wrong, self-restraint, decency, and respect melt into air. Conservatives who cherish market values have to witness the erosion of the moral values they hold dear. Liberals who cherish any change that ....

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