Photo Credit: MARY ANN HALPIN
Photo Credit: MARY ANN HALPIN- These are different novels and showcase women in different stages of life but both embrace the importance of change. Love and death will always be timely because we are driven by the two – both change us. Erica Jong on Fear of Flying and Fear of Dying
Erica Jong in 1977
Fear of Flying - in the Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition
Fear of Dying, Jong's last effort- The #metoo movement is important in our culture. Not all men are rapists. For every rapist there is a man who wants his lover to be a friend and an equal partner. Erica Jong
Fear of Flying in the Italian edition (Paura di volare), by the publisher Bompiani
Erica Jong with Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic Fernanda Pivano at the Fernando Pivano Award for American Literature that Jong won in 2009.- When I studied Dante at Barnard College I determined I must read him in Italian. When I was nineteen, I travelled to Florence to study Italian literature, history and language for two and a half months. Erica Jong
Italian writer Umberto Eco- He was a bit of a male chauvinist pig and totally ungrateful for my praise. Was this a relationship? I suppose it was a sort of relationship that educated me about the perils of praising male writers. Erica Jong on Umberto Eco
Poto Credit: Gianni Franchellucci- Italians and Americans adore each other. In many ways we are cut from the same cloth. We love innovation – in food, in literature, in language. Erica Jong
- Erica Jong was recently interviewed at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York by Italian journalist Maria Teresa Cometto. Video filmed and edited by i-Italy