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== Response to Philip Roth from Wikipedia == :Philip Roth posted an open letter to Wikipedia today on The New Yorker’s Page Turner blog, describing a series of curious events. Roth recently discovered that the Wikipedia entry about his novel The Human Stain mentioned, in passing, that the book was “allegedly inspired by the life of the writer Anatole Broyard.” This was “a serious misstatement,” Roth tells us. He contacted Wikipedia to have the line removed, at which point he received a reply from a site administrator perhaps inspired by the writer Roland Barthes: “**I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work, but we require secondary sources.**” From https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/philip-roths-open-letter-to-wikipedia-another-possible-inspiration-for-the-human-stain.html this Slate article on the issue.
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