Conversations with Erica Jong reveals the writer to be funny, articulate, and passionately committed to her art. In Jong's writing, humor is a constant, and one of the pleasures of reading these conversations is her abundant wit.
She describes the difficulty of escaping categories created by the media and the critical community and the frustration of living in the shadow of one notorious best-seller. She tells the story of the struggle to keep writing honestly when the public's perception of one's work has made one a target. She speaks for all women writers who have addressed sexual topics and who have suffered retaliation.
Her most recent essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, and she is a frequent guest on television talk shows. Jong's fame has been deeply branded by the notoriety associated with sex. Erica Jong is the author of nineteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including Fear of Flying, which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. In several conversations, she talks about the tensions within feminism over the decades. Cast into the role of spokesperson for feminism in the seventies, she has continued to represent her generation of women. With equal attention to the art of fiction and poetry, she yields her views on the literary scene and on the place of poetry in American society.Īmong the highlights of the book is Jong's account of the publication of Fear of Flying and its remarkable, best-seller rise. In interviews from 1973 to 2001, Jong relates the extra-ordinary experience she gained as a pioneer of sexual writing from a female point of view. She was already an established poet when she published Fear of Flying (1973), but the novel's sensational reception came to overshadow all her work. In Conversations with Erica Jong one of the most popular and controversial of contemporary writers has her say.
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