Did Philip Roth's Real Hate Mail Become His Novel's Cover Art?
J.K. Trotter · 08/06/13 09:52AMIn March of this year, the literary biographer Blake Bailey paid a visit to Francine du Plessix Gray, a former New Yorker scribe living in western Connecticut. Bailey is at work on the official biography of Philip Roth, and he had a question about one of Roth's novels—specifically about the jacket art.