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The Climax of ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’
Getting Unstuck
It took a timely death and a stint at Yaddo to jolt Philip Roth out of the writer’s block that had kept him from finishing his breakthrough comic novel of lust and masturbation.
Robert Hofler
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May 14 2014
5:45AM EDT
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