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Transcript: Erica Jong Faces 50 in Her New Book
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- July 30, 1994
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SCOTT SIMON, Host: In 1973, Erica Jong wrote a novel that became a
touchstone for that time. Fear of Flying was the story of Isadora
Wing [sp], a smart and spirited, sexual woman of the 1970s, a period
when the sexual and feminist revolutions were in full cry and the
Supreme Court of the United States decided in favor of Roe, not Wade.
Twenty-one years, six novels and several collections of poetry later,
Erica Jong has a new book out, a memoir called Fear of Fifty. NPR'
s special correspondent STAMBERG Stamberg caught up with the author
on her book tour.
SUSAN STAMBERG, Reporter: What to expect? What to expect from a
woman who writes, ` `No sperm could ever get ...