1. Fittingly, Philip Roth is posthumously entangled in several overlapping scandals about free speech. Equally fittingly, they are an outgrowth of Roth's characteristic attempt to have extreme control the narrative of his life & the inevitably blowback this produced.
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6. The Bailey book is tainted now. It can't stand and won't stand as any sort of definitive biography (itself a dubious concept). The Philip Roth Society is rightly demanding that Roth's papers not be destroyed and be open to future scholars.
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7. I sat down with my friend
@ejessicajohnson to talk about the Roth scandal(s), the need to control narrative, the limits of fact checking & the fallibility of memory. I think this podcast is pretty interesting even if you don't care about Philip Roth!https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-philip-roth-control-freak?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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Why will it be destroyed?
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Wait, who is responsible for the decision to destroy those materials? What is the rationale?
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Philip Roth estate. There rational is the material was meant only for the biographer (which actually I don't think is true).
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