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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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
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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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Replying to @Jo_Livingstone @HeerJeet
It’s a question of who is in whose pocket, and who gets to make coverage decisions, not age! I have believed this since Margo Jefferson explained it gently down the phonehttps://newrepublic.com/article/147124/myth-metoo-generational-divide …
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Yeah, I do think generational frame has to be made more nuanced since there were critics of Roth's (and Bellow's and Updike's) misogyny in the 1960s/1970s. Was just looking up a very critical review of Roth in On Our Backs circa 1972.
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