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TheWrap: Molly Jong-Fast on Mom Erica Jong, Dementia, Sobriety and Joe Biden

Molly Jong-Fast’s new memoir, “How to Lose Your Mother”, offers a raw and honest look at her famous mother Erica Jong’s decline into dementia. The book is both a loving tribute and a candid ...

In How to Lose Your Mother, the journalist recalls caring for her mother, novelist Erica Jong, as she succumbed to dementia. Because I was on TV and so active on X, publishers wanted me to do a book, ...

MSN: Dementia and “the virus of fame”: Erica Jong’s daughter maps mother’s decline

Dementia and “the virus of fame”: Erica Jong’s daughter maps mother’s decline

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Erica Jong, author of "Fear of Flying," at her daughter Molly Jong-Fast's 2000 book signing for "Normal Girl" in New York City. (Barbara Alper/Getty Images) You probably know Molly Jong-Fast from the ...

The New York Times: The Devastating Book Erica Jong Always Knew Her Daughter Would Write

Molly Jong-Fast’s unsparing account of her famous mother’s decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables. By Alexandra Alter Ever since she was a child, Molly Jong-Fast ...

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Vanity Fair: Molly Jong-Fast Reflects on Her Mother’s Dementia and the Fleeting Nature of Fame

My mother coined an expression for casual sex: the “zipless fuck.” Now think about being the offspring of the person who wrote that phrase. And pour one out for me. I grew up with Erica Jong ...

Molly Jong-Fast Reflects on Her Mother’s Dementia and the Fleeting Nature of Fame

The Conversation: Mommy dearest? Molly Jong‑Fast’s blistering memoir of her ‘always performing’ mother Erica is hilarious and moving

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My first boyfriend told me with some pride that he’d read Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (1973), and Shere Hite’s The Hite Report (1976). Though they had been selling in the millions, I hadn’t yet read ...

Mommy dearest? Molly Jong‑Fast’s blistering memoir of her ‘always performing’ mother Erica is hilarious and moving

Novelist and poet Erica Jong helped bring unvarnished female sexual desire into the literary mainstream. Now her daughter, writer Molly Jong-Fast, is mapping her mother’s decline. “How to Lose Your ...