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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2021

    1. The last 25 years of Philip Roth's are depressing to contemplate. After a bitter divorce, Roth became unmoored: touchy, self-justifying, quick to break with old friends, prone to doomed relationships, eager to find a biographical vindication. His estate continues the folly.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2021

        2. There's a weird ouroboros quality to accounts of Roth's last years because they were spent trying to control -- to shape or to resist -- the biographies we're reading. Plus a novel (Exit Ghost) about his alter-ego's fear of a biographer. Snakes eating their tails.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2021

        3. Roth wanted a biographer who would refute the account given to him by his ex-wife Claire Bloom. In the process he used one biographer as a sock puppet & broke with him (Ross Miller), stonewalled another (Ira Nadel) & finally settled on Blake Bailey (now accused of rape).

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2021

        4. The Roth estate is continuing the folly: they are planning on destroying Roth manuscripts & papers (including 2 book length memoirs about Bloom & Ross) which only Bailey and a few others have seen. @alex_shephard reports on the details here:https://newrepublic.com/article/162475/philip-roth-blake-bailey-documents-biography …

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2021

        5. If the Roth estates goes ahead & destroys these manuscripts, they will tie Roth's name to Bailey forever (since he'll be the only source, albeit a refracted one, for Roth's views on these matters). That seems incredibly unwise.

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2021

        6. The paradox here is that the unauthorized biography Roth stonewalled by not allowing quotes (Ira Nadel) is actually much better for Roth's reputation than Bailey's book. Nadel wrote a literary biography about a writer, Bailey a re-litigation of private feuds.

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      7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2021

        7. My friend @ejessicajohnson did a podcast about the Roth scandal but also much more: about the need people have to control the narrative of their lives (and their relationships) & how that leads to disaster. It's a great discussion. Listen here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-philip-roth-control-freak …

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      1. Sam‏ @SlamGass 21 May 2021
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        He wrote about jerking off into a liver on a public bus and later served that liver to his family - and it was a best seller and taught in Lit classes. Dude is a king.

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      2. Kurticus Maximus‏ @KurtEllis10 21 May 2021
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        his books lost a lot of the comedy of his earlier works during this time

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2021
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        Yes, exactly.

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      2. Stephen Saperstein Frug‏ @StephenFrug 21 May 2021
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        His last 25 years include some of his best books: the history trilogy (American Pastoral/I Married a Communist/Human Stain), Plot Against America, and Sabbath's Theater, which IIRC you said was your favorite. (I've always found having a creative renaissance in his 60s uplifting!)

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      3. marincountyconfidential‏ @marindatanow 21 May 2021
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        I loved "American Pastoral" but it has weird blind spots, predictably with regard to Black characters. "Human Stain" is even worse in that regard. I enjoyed "I Married A Communist" but hardly captured the era. Why did male critics all ignore the early kiss in "American Pastoral"?

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