A writer at all costs. Philip Roth also took notes on the books at his mother's funeral and hated Woody Allen<

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PremiumWe Recommend Philip Roth's biography by Blake Bailey begins with Roth's statement: "I don't want you to rehabilitate me. Just make me interesting. ”“ Uninteresting ”is the last attribute that would suit Roth and his life.1. August 2021 5:00 Unlock article

At Blackwell Bookstore (where Bill Clinton buys while in Oxford) I have to search for Philip Roth's resume for a while. One would expect the most anticipated biography of one of the greatest modern writers in a prominent place. Normally. However, its author - Blake Bailey - was accused of rape, so less than a month after the more than eighty-page book of the award-winning biographer appeared, the prestigious publisher WWNorton began withdrawing it from the US.

And the distribution of the audiobook was also stopped. A reader who had been looking forward to the American Titan's biography for nine years was suddenly not entitled to access it in America. And he wouldn't be entitled to it at all - if the book hadn't been taken over by Skyhorse Publishing, the publisher of controversial titles: Woody Allen's biography, for example.

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