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The life of Philip Roth and the art of literary survival - Christian Lorentzen - Bookforum Magazine

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Philip Roth: The Biography by blake bailey. new york: norton. 912 pages. $40. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon MORE THAN REALISM OR ITS RIVALS, the dominant literary style in America is careerism. This is neither a judgment nor a slur. For decades it has simply been the case that novelists, story writers, even poets have had to devote themselves to managing their careers as much as to writing their books. Institutional jockeying, posturing in profiles and Q&As, roving in-person readership cultivation, social-media fan-mongering, coming off as a good literary citizen among one’s peers—some

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