Volume 26, Number 16 · October 25, 1979
Fathers and Ghosts
By John Leonard
The Ghost Writer
by Philip Roth
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 180 pp., $8.95
In the 768 pages of Edmund Wilson's Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972, there is a single mention of Philip Roth. Writing to the editors of this journal in 1964, Wilson complained about Roth's review of James Baldwin's play, Blues for Mr. Charlie: 'Roth's article seems to me one of those scurrilous pieces of destructive analysis that the New York literati like to write in order to make themselves feel better when some other writer has become popular and is producing work of obvious value.'
Review, 2750 words
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