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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
As someone who works hard to get it right in my own novels, I'm very aware of just how difficult it is to depict well As the bad sex in fiction award shortlist lined up yesterday, the authors and their publishers scrambled to declare they'd have been offended not to have made the cut. Perhaps they were forgetting: it's the quality of the writing, not the sex, that's being assessed – and writing...
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Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Sophocles, the great Greek playwright wrote“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love”. Mark Twain, “Love is the irresistibledesire to be irresistibly desired”. Margaret Walker, the mould-breaking blackAmerican poet, “Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside”. Romeo, standing beneath Juliet’s balconyjust before she has...
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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...
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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, [...]
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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...
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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....
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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).
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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...
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Celebrity Blog Index (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Author - Novelist, Poet, Teacher http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/ http://www.ericajong.com Nationality: American
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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