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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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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