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OWaz on Nov 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wikipedia Zero

One example that comes to my mind is when author Philip Roth attempted to clarify the inspiration for his book The Human Stain. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-...

The wikipedia entry for The Human Stain now contains a reference to the controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Stain#Anatole_Broyard...

tommorris on Nov 8, 2013 [–]

Except Roth was full of shit on that.

See: http://old.ironholds.org/?p=979

ZeroGravitas on Nov 8, 2013 | [–]

That link's really worth a read.

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