RIP Philip Roth

Ms. Bloom says Mr. Roth forced her 18-year-old daughter by a previous marriage to move out of the house....because the girl's conversation ''bored'' him.

I work with 18-year-olds a lot. I'm not going to judge him on this one. If I could kick them out of my sphere, I would do so with a smile on my face.

 

LOL, that's going to be me, minus the talent and ex-wife.

Some were born to play the lone wolf though I never imagined I was one of them.

 

Yeah, and what were the circumstances with Bloom’s 18-year-old daughter? Why was she not in college or working? I honestly wouldn’t know Clare Bloom from Adam. If I’ve seen her in film, I’m not aware of it. Now Gore Vidal, there’s a shit-stirrer I miss.

 

My family's circle was rooted in Newark's Weequahic (pronounced Week-wake) section and high school of the 30s and 40s, so I grew up knowing people who played softball, etc, with "Phil" Roth. Read my first novel, Portnoy's Complaint, at 11 and re-read through my teens, I can still tell you the best parts started on page 121. When I asked my Dad about the novel, he asserted Roth was "insane".

 

Have you seen "Best of Enemies", the documentary about the Gore Vidal - William F. Buckley debates? It's really very good.

 

Yes, I have. Great viewing

 

I was too young to catch it in real time. The '68 Democratic Convention was the first one I really watched much of... but that wasn't typical convention coverage, you know?. No way a twelve year old budding political junkie was watching those two guys debate, though. I knew very little about it till I saw the film. Very well done.

 

Off topic, but really like the golf course there except it’s a little tight—basically 18 holes crammed into a space intended for nine. Two of the holes tee off from the same box!

 

Keep it clean, Portnoy

 

Started reading Portnoy's Complaint and the neuroses is high 30 pages in. The chapter 2 jerking off is quite fetching.

 

At this rate, it seems like we're about to lose the writers who remember the world before cable.

 

Phillip Roth biography pulled after author accused of rape


Phillip Roth biography pulled after author Blake Bailey is accused of having raped two women | Daily Mail Online