The Philip Roth estate has a plan to destroy thousands of pages of his personal papers (including 2 unpublished books). In a podcast I talk to @alex_shephard about why this would be a terrible move (one of many estate has made):https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/should-we-burn-philip-roth?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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26 minutes into the podcast with shephard and portnoy's legacy just discussedx wondering if you heard the roth interview wherein he talked about prepping his parents for the release of that novel. He took them to a restaurant and at table explained in hushed tone that this new 1/
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...novel was going to create a lot of publicity and he wanted to prepare them for the subsequent media attention/media questions. Per Roth, they were more concerned thst it appeared their son was suffering from "delusions of grandeur." Which.... well. 2/
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