Thread by @LemieuxLGM

A brilliant piece of writing in its own right about how wanting a sycophant to be your biographer can be counterproductive on multiple levels:

https://twitter.com/lmlauramarsh/status/1373970371154739202

Bailey apparently writes women characters like Oliver Stone, which is even worse when describing real women

Of course -- and I say this as an admirer of many of his novels -- a major issue here is the subject himself 😬😬😬

"I am mocking bourgeois piety," the first refuge of the misogynist asshole

"The absence of ironies here, the raw insistence on truth over untruth, are distinctly un-Rothian. They strain oddly against Roth’s own experiments with persona—the play of author and alter ego, of life and counterlife, in endless permutations of self-exploration"