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"The book begins with a question: Why Henry Miller? Miller remains among the most misunderstood of writers - seen either as a pornographer or a guru, a sexual enslaver or a sexual liberator, a prophet or a pervert. All the questions his life and oeuvre raise about the role of the...
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the ten...
A publishing event, a real-life novel, Fear of Fifty is the true story of the woman who twenty years ago showed her generation how to soar in Fear of Flying and now looks back - and ahead - to assess the costs, the rewards, and the meaning of the journey. Opening on her fiftieth ...
""As the afternoon of life looms over Vanessa Wonderman, she watches her parents age, attends doctor appointments with her pregnant daughter, and sits by the hospital bed of her husband, Asher, fifteen years her senior. With her best years as an actress behind her, she's discover...
A modern-day actress finds herself transported back in history and into the arms of a passionate young bard in Erica Jong's sensuous spin on Shakespeare's The Merchant of VeniceA glamorous Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriv...
Poet, novelist, and essayist, the legendary Erica Jong-whose novel Fear of Flying opened eyes and broke down walls-offers us a provocative collection of essays about sex from some of the most respected female authors writing today. "Real Women Write about Real Sex" in Sugar in My...
Bored with her marriage, a psychoanalyst's wife embarks on a wild, life-changing affair After five years, Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads in her marriage: Should she and her husband stay together or get divorced? Accompanying her husband to an analysts' conference in Vien...
A "rollicking and bawdy" tale of eighteenth-century England, inspired by Fanny Hill , from the New York Times -bestselling author of Fear of Flying ( The Plain Dealer ). Galloping from England to Africa to the high seas of the Caribbean, bestselling author Erica Jong's "...
Iconic and never-before-published works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Marlene Dumas and Alice Neel run alongside original essays by New York Times best selling authors Erica Jong and Roxane Gay, and contributions from photographer...