Erica Jong, My Darling Friend

Erica Jong, My Darling Friend

By Phyllis Chesler Let me tell you about my dear friend Erica Jong–let me sing her praises. As the Bard would have it: in Julius Caesar, Mark Antony says: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with his bones.” I will not let that stand. Yes, being famous meant a great deal to her, but Erica was also as generous as she was extravagant. She had the soul of a poet–a good poet, as well as that of a novelist, but she also w…