2. Bailey's biography of Roth is now in limbo as abandoned by the publisher. I hope this status doesn't stop introspection about how only a very few of the early reviews (most notably @lmlauramarsh's) grappled with the misogyny of the book.
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3. Stuff that was unsettling in Bailey's book now looks even worse in light of Peyton and other women coming out with their stories: the idealization of what Bailey calls "Pygmalion" relationships between Roth & much younger, poorer women he mentored & slept with.
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4. There's a kind of generational and gender divide behind the reception of the Bailey book. An older, mostly male (+Cynthia Ozick) cohort is heavily invested in Roth & ignored all the red flags in the book. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/philip-roth-biography-misogyny/ …
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Harrowing.
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Agree with this. Also: Obama should not have given Clinton the Medal of Freedom. There should have been more outcry over that. What the fuck does that have to do with the Blake Bailey case, you say? Nothing, not a damn thing.
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Also I think Hannah Arendt was sexually harassed and ripped off for her ideas by Heidegger. Although he was an anti-Semite, he never missed an opportunity. His letters about her curves and her "trusting eyes." Blech
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