The Philip Roth shambles
In which the late accused misogynist hands his defence to the wrong advocate
On September 27, 2012, the website Publisher’s Marketplace, which assiduously tracks literary deals, announced that Blake Bailey, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner for Cheever: A Life, had signed a contract with the publisher W.W. Norton & Co. to produce Philip Roth: The Biography. Bailey was reported to have arrived at “a collabor…
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