This is a tangential matter but the piece also brings up something I've been hearing through the grapevines, that some of Roth's ex-lovers are not happy about way Bailey depicted their relationship. I think this is something we'll hear more about.
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yeah the first chapter of Jacques Berlinerblau's "The Philip Roth We Don't Know" (mentioned in the NYT piece) is about this
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So after four or five decades, readers are getting a mere chapter on the elephant in the room? I mean, pardon me for not being terribly impressed. There's no good explanation for why Roth's racism was glossed over by literary critics and editors for decades.
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