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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2021

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2021

      2. I don't think it's sufficiently appreciated how Roth made to engineer a biography that he hoped would vindicate him against the portrait given by his ex-wife Claire Bloom in her memoir.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2021

      3. The broad story is Roth wanted a sock puppet official biographer who would voice his side of the story. The first sock puppet (Ross Miller) passive-aggressively resisted & so Roth settled on Blake Bailey. Whose bio overshadowed by sexual assault accusation. Hubris & nemesis.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2021

      4. The Bailey book was dropped by original publisher but now picked up by another house, Skyhorse. I'm okay with that: it's a very bad book (partisan, gossipy, unliterary) but if people want to read it, let them. It'll eventually be forgotten.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2021

      5. But there's another speech scandal which isn't getting much attention. Roth gave Bailey as authorized biographer access to all sorts of private material (including 2 unpublished Roth memoirs) which will now be destroyed. That's a real slap in the face to literary scholarship

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2021

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2021

      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 …

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        2. Paul Chadwick‏ @PaulHChadwick 18 May 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ejessicajohnson

          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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        3. Paul Chadwick‏ @PaulHChadwick 18 May 2021
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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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        1. georgee‏ @georgie28126456 18 May 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ejessicajohnson

          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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