1. This is a shattering memoir by Eve Crawford Peyton of predatory male mentorship & assault. It has to be front and center of discussions of the Blake Bailey scandal.https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/04/blake-bailey-former-student-sexual-assault-essay.html?via=rss_socialflow_twitter …
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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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Maybe, maybe not, but it does mean the value of the copies that are out there are going through the roof!
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Too bad I marked up mine.
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In addition to Marsh's brilliant review,
@parul_sehgal's also saw through Bailey's misogyny.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/books/review-philip-roth-biography-blake-bailey.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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