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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

Published May 14 2014 5:45AM EDT

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Robert Hofler

Robert Hofler

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