The Philip Roth biography has a joint copyright for both the author Blake Bailey and the Philip Roth estate. I've never seen anything like this. Does anyone know what is going on?pic.twitter.com/dJxmkrQXJE
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The Philip Roth biography has a joint copyright for both the author Blake Bailey and the Philip Roth estate. I've never seen anything like this. Does anyone know what is going on?pic.twitter.com/dJxmkrQXJE
That is very interesting/odd. But it seems part and parcel with making it authorized, no? Get access to my papers and I get a piece of the action, or rather my estate does.
Is it common among even authorized biographies? Like I said, I've never seen anything like this before and am curious what it means.
I've never heard of it before. But I can't say it's anything I've ever paid attention to. I guess the more interesting aspect is less the money than control. Suggests that his estate controls the text.
Which may come in handy if they need to ditch the author!
Just posted a comment to that effect, yes. It's an escape hatch.
perhaps the estate can fire the author, give it a rinse and give it to a new author.
Roth had already fired a previous biographer & had tried two others that didn't work out, so that sort of caution makes sense.
Yeah, frankly as someone with a great need for control over their literary legacy and a smart person, which certainly applies to Roth, it makes sense. Presume this guy got access to his papers.
Oh yeah, Bailey got access to private papers (including book length manuscripts written by Roth about his life) that no one else is going to see for another 30 years.
Or maybe ever: Roth instructed his executors to destroy the papers after Bailey had his way with them. Kinda like the way he treated certain women, or at least their reputations.
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