2. Philip Roth wrote a string of middling, flawed & terrible books in the early 1970s (Great American Novel, Our Gang, My Life as a Man)
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3. Flawed Roth novels were a necessary stage where he worked out his outrageous comic spiel & anger, before more controlled Zuckerman series
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@bendwilliams It's really bad. Yet I think trying to write Skeeter & failing made Updike a better writer.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bendwilliams The first big section of Redux, before Skeeter, is among Updike's best work.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MattZeitlin@bendwilliams Yeah, just as a stand-alone novella, that first section of Redux is fantastic.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@parabasis@sternbergh Agree. Although I do think there are other writers who go silent: the other Roth, Salinger. It's a thing.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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