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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@alex_shephard and I talk about it herehttps://jeetheer.substack.com/p/should-we-burn-philip-roth?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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Why is no one examining Roth's contentious (I'm being generous) interactions with Black writers? Or his seeming inability to create believable Black characters who didn't exist merely to promote Roth's politics?
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I think there's at least one critical book on Roth that's forthcoming that will deal with this.
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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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Yup. I've pondered the same questions. Some will be answered in the book. But first and foremost (and most obviously), a staggering lack of diversity in that professional world lies at the root of the problem
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Sincere, possibly valid, question: if
@alex_shephard's response to the question is to direct me to a single chapter in your upcoming book, is it fair to ask whether you might both represent that lack of diversity? & For all the Roth ink spilled by Jeet, not mention of it, either?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
I agree it's under-discussed. I just wanted to cite one place where it was. I also think of Ishmael Reed's review of Human Stain. But, agree, there's a lot more to be written.
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Jeet, please pardon my exasperation, but it's such a passive voice you adopt here. You write, "it's under-discussed." Yeah, it's "under-discussed" by you gentlemen. It's almost as if it's impossible to penetrate the gilded bubble in which you write.
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