Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Rae Armantrout’s poetry Entertainment Weekly on the National Book Award § Eileen Myles talks with CA Conrad § Rachel Zolf : the MFA as an institution within larger state apparatuses Tendencies begins Oct. 29 @ CUNY with Zolf, Robert Glück & Trish Salah § Paul Vangelisti talks with Mary de Rachelwiltz § Federal Trade Commission identifies a threat: book bloggers §...
The Freedom Fighter's Journal (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
If the President is not stoking the resurgence of racial hatred, he certainly has done nothing substantial to stop it either. Here we are only nine months into the ubiquitously proclaimed "post-racial presidency," and all that promised harmony among the races has disappeared faster than a Chicago minute. All it took for addled minds to conjure shadows of racism behind every whitey tree in...
Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
— Big News: Women Can Write! The Huffington Post | Erica Jong — *** — Two Award Winning Poets to Read at APSU — *** — “It was in grad school that my poems got better,” he said. “I could shape things, make things out of what was in my mind, things that really concerned me, [...]
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Every woman has one. Not what you're thinking -- that too, yes, but I am referring to a menstruation horror story. A bright blood stain blooming on the back of white jeans, a first period that has the audacity to arrive during gym class or one that colors a yellow swimsuit red while you are waterskiing with your grandfather, as happened to Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, the editor of "My Little Red...
Among Amid While (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
At Olvar Wood, I read/finished the following: Krissy Kneen's Affection: a memoir of love, sex and intimacy Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life David Levithan's 9/11 novel Love is the Higher Law , and Cate Kennedy's short story collection Dark Roots . Since then I've been trying to re-absorb the collected works of J. D. Salinger, who was my area of expertise for the Literary Smackdown....
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Bring back the old exchanges--and let's invent some new ones while we're at it. Let's name them after NY writers. GInsberg for the East Village. And WH for the West Village (after Auden).
Palin Campaign 2008 (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Elizabeth McCaughey has discovered that there’s no penalty for continual lying about healthcare reform, but Jim Rutenberg is pretty clear about her falsifications in this NY Times story : The author Erica Jong first became socially acquainted with former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey of New York in the late 1990s, a dark time for Ms. McCaughey. Ms. McCaughey had just lost her bid to unseat her former...
Celebrity Blog Index (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Author - Novelist, Poet, Teacher http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/ http://www.ericajong.com Nationality: American
SerandEz (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
DeepThroat on marriage, dating, and shidduchim: "People want to make it seem like there's only one way to [get married], and if you do it any other way you'll be ostracized... [But] it's one of those things, once you get married, nobody cares how you did it."(via RD) Erica Jong on advice: "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."A young teenage...
The Paragraph Farmer (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament" was just one of the many vapid but bumper-sticker-friendly quips for which Flornyce Kennedy was known back in the day, before she died and was lionized by the likes of Erica Jong. Let's put aside for a minute Kennedy's abysmal ignorance of what sacraments actually are, and how any legitimate sacrament is inherently life-giving rather...
A Flyover Blog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
"When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life." - Erica Jong
phoenix (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
And all for love, and nothing for reward. Edmund Spenser ******************** … if you love somebody, tell them. Rod McKuen ******************** A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. unknown ******************** A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. Latin proverbs ******************** A pity beyond all...
The "top" Top Five (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
According to the Times the best books Of the last 60 years: 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1951 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1952 Pigs Have Wings P. G. Wodehouse 1953 Casino Royale Ian Fleming 1954 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1955 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1956 The Hundred and One Dalmatians Dodie Smith 1957 Doctor Zhivago...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
The Times offers its list of the best 60 books of the past 60 years (yeah, there's an original idea ...), and Erica Wagner introduces them in The best novels since 1949 . The only-one-a-year-criteria skews things a lot, but I have a hard time thinking some of these really were the best novels of the year. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (2005) ? Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1974) ? Salem's Lot by Stephen...
Sunny Dunny (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
The Times has a list today of the books its literary editor thinks are the best 60 novels of the past 60 years. As with all such lists, it's subjective, but I've had fun going through it, agreeing and disagreeing. I've learned some things too, just from the layout: the 1960s and 1970s were my decades for reading fiction, and I haven't read any of the critically received novels of this decade. Anyway,...
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