As a rule, I read few biographies, and certainly not of authors, people whose most significant life events are spent alone. In my case, Churchill, Swift and Dostoyevsky are the exceptions that prove the rule: world historical figures who can’t be understood outside the context of their times. So I’d already decided not to bother with Blake Bailey’s ballyhooed new book, “Philip Roth: The Biography” — even though Roth was a friendly acquaintance who’d given me help and encouragement way back when. After all, his novels were semi-autobiographical, his memoirs a veritable hall of mirrors. I agreed entirely with what Bill Clinton said in awarding Roth the National Medal of Arts: “What James Joyce
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