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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      13. If single-mindedness is a Roth trait, it shows up in his willingness to bravely focus on narrow range of characters & obsessions.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      14. Updike, compared to Roth, suffered from the defuseness of having a wide range of interest & restless need to experiment narratively.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      15. Udpike's insatiable intellectual curiosity, his need to figure things out & try to inhabit other people's minds, is something Roth lacks

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      16. Philip Roth had an older brother, Updike was an only child. Roth's sense of fraternal rivalry evident in fiction, Updike's in criticism

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      17. Having no real brother, Updike saw the male novelists roughly his own age as siblings to emulate & be jealous of.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      18. Updike reviewed almost every book between Ghost Writer and Operation Shylock (Roth's strongest period).

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      19. Updike's reviews of Roth have the intensity of a talent judging his closest competitor: shrewd and alert for signs of weakness.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      20. In her memoir Claire Bloom has a story about Updike & Roth which is probably not true but revealing as a kind of folklore

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      21. According to Bloom, Roth was so upset over Updike's ungenerous review of Operation Shylock he had nervous breakdown & was hospitalized.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      22. People who know Roth say Bloom's story is baloney. Hospitalization due to being wrongly prescribed Halcion.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014

      23. Still Bloom's story is interesting as gossip/folklore: something Bloom wrote because she knew it hit a sore spot with Roth.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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          24. Operation Shylock was last Roth novel Updike reviewed.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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          25. 25. As both Claudia Roth Pierpont and Adam Begley point out, Updike/Roth friendship ended with Updike seemed to endorse Bloom's book.

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