Philip Roth Biography Finds a New Publisher
Skyhorse said it would release the paperback and digital versions of the book, which had been taken out of print following sexual assault allegations against its author, Blake Bailey.
“Philip Roth: The Biography,” originally published in April before Norton took it out of print, will be released again, this time by Skyhorse.Credit.Skyhorse Publishing, via Associated Press
May 17, 2021Updated 1:32 p.m. ET
Just three weeks after W.W. Norton dropped its Philip Roth biography, following accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against its author, Blake Bailey, the book has found a new home.
Blake Bailey upheld Philip Roth s legacy in the worst way
A best-selling biography of a misogynist, written by an alleged abuser, is almost too apt a metaphor.
The cycle of letting bad men write about bad men has to stop.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
May 5, 2021, 7:00 PM UTC Always it came back to the women, Blake Bailey wrote of novelist (and noted misogynist) Philip Roth in his best-selling biography of Roth s life.
For Bailey, too, it seems, it ultimately came back to the women. At the end of April, a series of reports from outlets including The New York Times, The Times-Picayune ofNew Orleans, the Los Angeles Times and Slate revealed that Bailey was alleged to have engaged in inappropriate, grooming relationships with some of his students when he was a middle school teacher in New Orleans in the 1990s. In 2021, the women alleged to have been affected by Bailey s life choices were ready to talk, as former student Eve Crawford Peyton wrote in an essay for Slate. The st
Woman who was raped by Philip Roth biographer reveals he taught said when she was 12 and after the sex attack said you really can t blame me, I ve wanted you since the day we met
Blake Bailey, 57, has been accused of grooming students as young as 12 and 13 during a stint as a teacher at Lusher High School in New Orleans
His former student Eve Crawford Peyton has now come forward with further allegations against the disgraced author
She alleges that he raped her in his hotel room during a book tour in Louisiana in June 2003
Book-burning comes to America
In a major act of censorship, with chilling implications for democratic rights, publisher W.W. Norton has announced its decision to “permanently” remove Blake Bailey’s biography of American novelist Philip Roth (1933–2018) from print. Several individuals have accused Bailey of sexual wrongdoing, including rape, dating back to 2003. None of them have come forward with any evidence to back up the claims.
Bailey’s 880-page book, well-received critically and considered one of the important works of the year in its field, will be pulped. Norton also reported its dropping of Bailey’s 2014 memoir.
Blake Bailey, 2011 (Photo credit–David Shankbone)
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