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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I'm envisioning an 1950s Atlas Comics zombie story in which Blake Bailey, with Roth's dead rotting hands around his throat, hears "You...had...one...job!" before we fade out. FWIW, Bailey's dysfunctional family memoir, The Splendid Things We Planned, is quite good.
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The bio does recount the sweetest and shortest Jewish joke ever: "Help, help! My son the doctor is drowning!"
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Your guest & listeners had a 20% experience bc you talk too much - and say little worth hearing. Guest: “The novelty is in not glorifying it.” Jeet: “I don’t know, maybe I’m naïve. It’s a very intense experience.” Jeet, your naïveté doesn’t begin to cut it.
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