Blake Bailey, the author of what to my mind was a very fine biography of John Cheever, and who has just published the authorized biography of Philip Roth (in which I occasionally figure but which I have not read), stands accused but a number of his former female students of ‘grooming’ them when, during the 1990s he was an eighth grade teacher at New Orl…
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