PHILIP ROTH – JUST ANOTHER PENIS WITH A THESAURUS?

PHILIP ROTH – JUST ANOTHER PENIS WITH A THESAURUS?

Predictably, inevitably, the great novelist Philip Roth is now receiving the full Updike treatment. He has become ‘problematic’. His novels should ‘recontextualised’. He is on the wrong side of Me Too. It has been a few years now since that tide turned for John Updike. One moment he was a much-loved adornment of the literary… Continue reading PHILIP ROTH – JUST ANOTHER PENIS WITH A THESAURUS?

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My 10 Writer’s Resolutions for 2015

On a home-alone New Year’s Eve, I find myself sternly noting resolutions to myself for the creative year ahead (the personal resolutions can wait). Of course, they may not work for everyone…   Enjoy yourself at work. Even when it is deadly serious, writing should have a bit of skittishness and fun to it.  … Continue reading My 10 Writer’s Resolutions for 2015

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