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“... fiction is well represented on the list: Fleming, Nevil Shute, Raymond Chandler, Len Deighton, Erica Jong. But we also find Chinua Achebe and R.K. Narayan, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Nadine Gordimer, Muriel Spark (two selections) and Flannery O’Connor. The ‘disguised self-portrait’ is there, perhaps, in the form of ...”

“... of the ‘fiercely sexy’ Hughes, to borrow from a Mills and Boon-style account of him by Erica Jong, who only just managed to resist the ‘vampirish, warlock appeal’ of this ‘wildman-from-the-moors’: ‘He hulked,’ she recalls, and ‘reeked of virility … You could inhale the man’s pheromones across the table, this stink of ...”

“... considered literary or intellectual worthies and equals (Oates, Ozick, Muriel Spark, Diana Athill, Erica Jong), he was on best behaviour, courtly and solicitous, but fiction with too much feminine essence could bring out his alluvial worst. In an otherwise businesslike missive to his British publisher André Deutsch, he calls Edna O’Brien’s novel ...”

“... was the past and future of feminist criticism. At a session called ‘Twenty Years of Feminism: Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying’, which looked at the novel’s reception as a key to changing attitudes, Jong herself responded to the panel, agreeing that ‘there has been a deep suspicion of pleasure in the American ...”

“... street, and feels a sudden desire to throw herself off. There are superficial similarities here to Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying. Just as Isadora Wing discovered that she need not worry in order to keep the plane in the air, so Tracy masters her fear of falling when falling in love. But while Jong took her inspiration ...”