I just read Erica Jong's Fear of Flying for the first time, having just read her book on Henry Miller, The Devil at Large.
I had to think about how social attitudes towards women and sex have changed since 1973. FOF certainly wasn't shocking now, but interesting to think about the outcry forty-plus years ago, how scandalous it must have been for a narrator to think about sex and analyze her desire(s).
Jong's book on Miller has me jonesin' to read more of him. I read Tropic of Cancer in the '80s, then Tropic of Capricorn. The latter book lost my interest, so I didn't read more, but now I've bought Black Spring, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, and Henry Miller On Writing for my Kindle.
And just started reading Will Self's Psychogeography, which caused me to pull out my dictionary (yay!). Gearing up for a little road trip to Copenhagen, so I probably won't get much reading done.
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