"Erica
Jong, who's that?" asked a friend's very hip daughter. I suppose
that's all what needs to know about poor Jong thinking herself a
prophetess, and -no less- a prophetess of despair.
If
I were Obama, I'd hate to have Jong and various pals (like Jane Fonda
and Naomi Wolf) depending on him to bring the ay of reckoning for the
wicked
Anyway, Margo Howard—a lot of Margo
reading these days—has thought very sharply about Erica's ruminations
about herself and Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer, and she has been
doing the thinking in WOW! Attached is a similar piece by Roger Ebert,
less sharp.
Here are the two.