Kansas City Star: “Back when Erica Jong was a lush literary Lolita, she had a certain somethin’ going on.
She had a way with words: Fear of Flying, her feminist manifesto novel, sold 18 million copies. And she had a way with men: four husbands and dalliances with other women’s husbands. (Martha Stewart is allegedly still ticked.)
Back then, Jong has boasted, she smelled of sex. Pheromones-a-go-go. But with time comes both change and regrets, and, well, the Italians, they don’t stalk her through the streets of Venice anymore, fingers grasping at ripe rump flesh.
As Jong, who recently turned 64, sees it, this is a blessing: “There’s something nice about the freedom of getting older,” she says, doing a jaunt through Washington to plug her memoir, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life.
Notwithstanding the spate of tucked and nipped celebs extolling the fabulousness of being 50-plus, “American society is very ageist. … But I don’t care. My needs are different now.”
“The zipless fuck could not interest me less,” says Jong, who coined the catchphrase back in 1973.” [Read the full article]
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