The Philip Roth Society

Roth‘s legacy considered in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/philip-roth-biography-misogyny/

The roundtable, featuring Steven Zipperstein, Aimee Pozorski, and Jesse Tisch, is this week. It will be 3pm PT/6pm ET. You can register here: https://sgs.stanford.edu/events/philip-roth-reconsidered

A piece in today's Guardian discusses the controversy surrounding the Bailey biography and Roth's legacy: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/23/the-reputation-game-how-authors-try-to-control-their-image-from-beyond-the-grave

The statement recently issued by the Advisory Board of Roth Studies and by the Board of The Philip Roth Society concerning the possible destruction of Roth materials was featured in The New Republic and The Washington Post Book Club: https://newrepublic.com/article/162475/philip-roth-blake-bailey-documents-biography?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=sharebtn&fbclid=IwAR3YIOH-stCwkFz6dOSiQRyrzw_W-ymKLNcVrDD8b6G4jDBpa2MLikUFJWg https://s2.washingtonpost.com/cam

For more information: https://npl.org/2021-philip-roth-lecture-featuring-author-ayad-akhtar/

A thoughtful essay on Roth and biography by James Wolcott in London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/james-wolcott/sisyphus-at-the-selectric

In a series of interviews in 2012, Philip Roth explained why he instructed his literary executors to destroy confidential papers that he entrusted to a single biographer: to control his legacy. At that time, few people took this threat seriously. However, in light of recent events surrounding the Norton biography, Philip Roth scholars across the globe have serious concerns about the projected future of these documents. Arrangements limiting access to one biographer run count