![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, she chose to tell the story of a fictional character, an actress in her 60s, married to a significantly older man. ![]() She is quick to point out that, despite their similar titles, her new book isn’t a sequel to her debut, and it’s also not a memoir. Jong made her reputation with her debut novel, Fear of Flying, which was published in 1973 by Holt and blew open doors with the protagonist, Isadora Wing, who made an indelible mark on pop culture with her pursuit of the “zipless fuck.” But before Jong was known as a confessional novelist, she was a published poet, and she has continued to write poetry as well as fiction, including historical fiction, and memoir ( Fear of Fifty, Harper Collins, 1994) over her 40-plus-year career.įor Jong, poetry is “the source.” She took it up “with a vengeance” when she got to college, abandoning an early interest in painting that was nurtured by her family of artists.įear of Dying, Jong’s first work of fiction in 12 years, is due out in September from St. In the elegant round dining room of her art-filled apartment in New York City’s East 60s, Erica Jong offers me a cappuccino, makes herself comfortable in the seat across from me and asks, evenly, “Have you read a lot of my work?” ![]()
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