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The next time literary biographer Blake Bailey sits down to write a book, would it be possible for him to select a subject who isn’t a) a disconsolate failure, b) a deeply unhappy husband, c) an awful alcoholic, or d) a paranoid, self-involved ass?
Close to two decades have passed since the publication of Bailey’s 2003 life of novelist Richard Yates, with which the biographer announced himself as our chief chronicler of troubled 20th-century writers. In
A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, Bailey affixed his gaze on the massively talented but almost comically unsuccessful author of
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