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\"T-Magazine-Luxury\"<\/a>

Photo: Inez and Vinoodh for T: The New York Times Style Magazine<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

T: The New York Times Style Magazine<\/em> just sent us a sneak preview of their newest cover model: Philip Roth. He\u2019s in handsome company, perhaps dangerously so. The last guy on the cover was Channing Tatum.<\/p>\n

But if Roth has that stressed, I-can\u2019t-bear-to-look thing going on\u2014anxiety chic\u2014it\u2019s not because he\u2019s out of his depth in the modeling game. It\u2019s because he\u2019s been rereading his own work<\/a>, always a dicey proposition. Specifically, he\u2019s been rereading Portnoy\u2019s Complaint<\/em>, to which his reputation remains staked, many decades and nearly two dozen novels later. Roth doesn\u2019t have a problem with that, but he does have a problem with those who have cast the book as gratuitous or indecorous:<\/p>\n

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I portrayed a man who is the repository of every unacceptable thought, a 33-year-old man possessed by dangerous sensations, nasty opinions, savage grievances, sinister feelings and, of course, one stalked by the implacable presence of lust. In short, I wrote about the quotient of the unsocialized that is rooted in almost everyone \u2026 One writes a repellent book (and Portnoy\u2019s Complaint<\/em> was taken by many to be solely that) not to be repellent but to represent the repellent, to air the repellent, to expose it, to reveal how it looks and what it is. Chekhov wisely advised that the writer\u2019s task lies not in solving problems but in properly presenting the problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With his usual candor, Roth meditates on Alexander Portnoy\u2019s standing today, in these \u201cerotically unfettered\u201d times. His essay is one in a series wherein authors reread their own work; there\u2019s also Lydia Davis on Break It Down<\/em>, Robert Caro on The Power Broker<\/em>, George Saunders on CivilWarLand in Bad Decline<\/em>, Marilynne Robinson on Housekeeping<\/em>, Jennifer Egan on A Visit From the Goon Squad<\/em>, and Junot D\u00edaz on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. <\/em>You can read all of them here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Next month, these writers and others are auctioning annotated first editions of their books to benefit PEN American Center. The auction, \u201cFirst Editions, Second Thoughts,\u201d takes place December 2 at Christie\u2019s New York; previews begin November 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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