{"id":1955,"date":"2014-04-10T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T02:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2014-04-10T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T02:56:44","slug":"philip-roth-takes-nt-times-to-task-over-begley-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/10\/philip-roth-takes-nt-times-to-task-over-begley-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Roth takes NT Times to task over Begley review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after <em>The New York Times<\/em> published a review of Adam Begley&#8217;s biography of John Updike, the <em>Times<\/em> followed with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/11\/opinion\/philip-roth-still-writing-letters-at-least.html?_r=0\">letter<\/a> they received from Philip Roth, who took exception with one of the claims made in the review:<\/p>\n<div><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>In his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/09\/books\/updike-adam-begleys-look-at-a-novelists-career.html\">review\u00a0<\/a>of Adam Begley\u2019s biography of John Updike (Arts pages, April 9), your reviewer allows that \u201cMr. Roth has denied\u201d a claim made about him that would have seemed to me unlikely enough on its surface not to bear gratuitous repeating in The Times.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Your reviewer writes, \u201cClaire Bloom, after her divorce from Philip Roth, said Updike\u2019s negative review of Mr. Roth\u2019s \u2018Operation Shylock\u2019 (1993) so distressed Mr. Roth that he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the record, in the weeks and months immediately after Updike\u2019s March 15, 1993, review of \u201cOperation Shylock\u201d in The New Yorker, I was teaching two classes in literature at Hunter College, giving readings from my book \u201cPatrimony\u201d in Lansing, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Cambridge, South Orange and at the New York \u201cY,\u201d and completing work on the first chapters of \u201cSabbath\u2019s Theater.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>On March 19 I enjoyed my 60th-birthday celebration at the home of friends in Connecticut and in early June drove to Massachusetts to receive an honorary degree from Amherst College.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>PHILIP ROTH<br \/>\nNew York, April 9, 2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after The New York Times published a review of Adam Begley&#8217;s biography of John Updike, the Times followed with a letter they received from Philip Roth, who took exception with one of the claims made in the review: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/10\/philip-roth-takes-nt-times-to-task-over-begley-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}