ONLINE: Amy Sohn
Craig LaCourt
The latest book by author Amy Sohn is The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age.
A Room of One s Own hosts author Amy Sohn for a discussion of the new book
The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age. The titular character is Anthony Comstock, who used a position as a U.S. postal inspector to harass and prosecute those who ran afoul of his narrow vision of morality, and influenced federal laws on what was legal to mail. Needless to say, he was not popular with early civil liberties or women s rights groups, and it is the stories of his opponents that provide the heart of Sohn s book. She will be joined in conversation by former
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The problem was, like many novelists before him, Roth – all too aware of the divergent opinions – wanted to control his legacy. So he first recruited as his biographer a friend he thought pliable, Ross Miller, nephew of the playwright Arthur, but the arrangement twice came to an end after Roth criticised his research methods.
Roth even wrote a full-length book entitled
Notes for My Biographer, mostly devoted to rebutting the allegations made by Roth’s former wife Claire Bloom in her incendiary memoir
Leaving A Doll’s House. He considered publishing the book then decided to keep it as an aid for his biographer. Roth offered the vacant role to several other friends, including the respected biographers Hermione Lee and Judith Thurman, neither of whom were available. In 2012, Bailey entered the picture. He didn’t know Roth, but he’d written three highly praised literary biographies, including works on Richard Yates and John Cheever.