ERICA JONG AT SHARON SPRINGS:
No Women In 'Canon'
Because Men Define It
By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
SHARON SPRINGS – Why women shop in Bloomingdale’s, witches and telling the truth through poetry were just a few of the topics discussed in “Erica Jong in Conversation with Jean Hanff Korelitz” at the Roseboro Hotel last Saturday, the final event of the Sharon Springs Poetry Festival.
Novelist Korelitz, who lives here parttime, opened her "intimate talk” with Jong – and 40-plus literature devotees – with "Fear of Flying," Jong’s 1973 novel that revolutionized views on female sexuality and has sold over 35 million copies worldwide, and how the two authors first met in 1979.