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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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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Even Roth’s relationship with his stepdaughter is in question. Here’s a man who forced his wife to have an abortion, and suddenly he wants to play daddy with her girl.
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It's difficult to know how much of that is Roth and how much Bailey.
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