tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post5576552524138486711..comments2024-01-26T17:29:53.415-05:00Comments on Reader's Almanac: Blake Bailey on “the versatility and breadth of achievement” of Philip Roth’s fiction and the challenge of writing his biographyThe Library of Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586915922688562543noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-91572926089106424352013-03-18T15:25:46.895-04:002013-03-18T15:25:46.895-04:00The Cheever book made me want to cry it was so goo...The Cheever book made me want to cry it was so good, can't wait for him to do Roth. What a treat! emmathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03914805260939907394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-46811377193371466822013-03-18T11:53:28.146-04:002013-03-18T11:53:28.146-04:00"no human life—much less that of a great arti..."no human life—much less that of a great artist—can be explained with a single theory, a nasty little rumor, that becomes for people like Kliman a strand to which everything else is attached, and what can’t be attached is swept under the rug." This reminded me of Citizen Kane and the search for the meaning of Kane's last word.Frank Jay Grubernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-11696778431557612012013-03-15T14:15:17.714-04:002013-03-15T14:15:17.714-04:00Thanks for this. I am very much looking forward t...Thanks for this. I am very much looking forward to this biography. Bailey's books on Cheever and Yates are excellent (indispensible, really) and I expect this one will match them. Bailey is very good at carefully dissecting and examining complex lives and I think he has another great subject in Roth.Greg Martineznoreply@blogger.com