This @Commentary podcast on Philip Roth with @jpodhoretz, aside from missing the promise of redemption in bleak writers, primarily left me (and, seemingly, them) nostalgic for the days when the magazine could publish Irving Howe and others. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/podcast/podcast-philip-roth-rip/ …
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Like father, like son, no? "Roth...is a tendentious writer who is always bent on making a point...the point he is bent on making is almost always the same, and has been from the beginning. It is, quite simply, that Americans are disgusting people." https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/laureate-of-the-new-class/ …
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Totally-on the podcast
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I didn't have the wherewithal to listen.
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I did as a public service!
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Replying to @samuelmoyn @CoreyRobin and
You inspired me to blog about it: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148521/commentary-still-cant-forgive-philip-roth …
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