Sisyphus at the Selectric
James Wolcott: Undoing Philip Roth, 20 May 2021
Philip Roth: The Biography
by Blake Bailey.
Cape, 898 pp., £30, April 2021,978 0 224 09817 5 Show More
by Blake Bailey.
Cape, 898 pp., £30, April 2021,
Philip Roth: A Counterlife
by Ira Nadel.
Oxford, 546 pp., £22.99, May 2021,978 0 19 984610 8 Show More
by Ira Nadel.
Oxford, 546 pp., £22.99, May 2021,
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth
by Benjamin Taylor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £18, May 2020,978 0 525 50524 2 Show More
by Benjamin Taylor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £18, May 2020,
“... one such dump, Roth joked, ‘a rat in a tuxedo greets you at the door’), attended concerts at Lincoln Centre. Their movie tastes were not aligned. ‘What do you see in all this Hollywood dreck, Ben?’ Roth wanted to know, ‘And why are you gay men so beguiled by Bette Davis?’ Yeah, Ben, what gives? Roth: ‘You don’t look twice at Ava Gardner, who ... ”
