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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

      1. So, a few thoughts about Lenny Bruce, pop art, Philip Guston, & Philip Roth.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

      2. Philip Roth came of age in the 1950s, and his first three books (Goodbye, Columbus, Letting Go, When She War Good) are kind of Iowa MFA books, written with the Flaubertian detachment taught in creative writing school.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

      3. Portnoy's Complaint (1969 -- nice!) was a breakthrough for Roth because he broke with the stiffness of 1950s modernism & embraced the vernacular. The novel was closer to stand-up comedy than Flaubert.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

      4. I actually think stand-up comedy influenced Roth. He was in Chicago in 1950s when Nichols & May were revolutionizing comedy with therapy-inflected relationship comedy that anticipates Roth.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

          5. Lenny Bruce too was an influence -- Roth was close friends with Albert Goldman, who was a big on Bruce and would write the (admittedly) hostile biography.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

          6. Before Portnoy was published, Roth apparently would try bits and pieces out on friends at parties as a spiel, a stand-up routine (which was very popular).

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

          7. One way to understand Roth's trajectory in 1950s-1960s is its the same journey made by his painter friend Philip Guston from abstract expressionism to pop art.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

          8. Guston's anti-Nixon drawings were one of the inspirations for Roth's anti-Nixon joke book, Our Gang. In books of 1960s and 1970s, Roth, like Guston, learned power of caricature.

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2018

          9. My more extended thoughts on Philip Roth here:https://newrepublic.com/article/148506/philip-roth-mandarin-joker …

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        1. Tim Sloper‏ @TSizzle24 23 May 2018
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          David Mamet was remarking about this exact subject on WTF podcast recently... the biggest influence on Roth’s writing was his time spent in Chicago rather than New Jersey.

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