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The Luncheon Society
Welcomes
Erica Jong
Author, Speaker, Memoirist
New York Times Best-Selling Author
Join us for a conversation about her new book, "Fear of Dying."
Fiction
Fear of Flying (1973), How to Save Your Own Life (1977), Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones (1980) (a retelling of
Fanny Hill)
Megan's Book of Divorce: a kid's book for adults; as told to Erica Jong; illustrated by Freya Tanz (1984), Megan's Two Houses: a story of adjustment; illustrated by Freya Tanz; Parachutes & Kisses. 1984) (UK ed. as Parachutes and Kisses: London: 1984.) Shylock's Daughter (1987): formerly titled Serenissima, Any Woman's Blues (1990), Inventing Memory (1997), Sappho's Leap (2003), Fear of Dying (2015)
Nonfiction
Witches; illustrated by Joseph A. Smith. (1981); The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller (1993);
Fear of Fifty: a midlife memoir (1994); What Do Women Want? bread roses sex power (1998); Seducing the Demon: writing for my life (2006);
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave essay, "My Dirty Secret" (2007); It Was Eight Years Ago Today (But It Seems Like Eighty) (2008); Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex Ed. Erica Jong (2011)
Poetry
Fruits & Vegetables (1971, 1997); Half-Lives (1973); Loveroot (1975); At the Edge of the Body (1979); Ordinary Miracles (1983); Becoming Light: New and Selected (1991), Love Comes First (2009)
Awards
Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Prize (1971) ; Sigmund Freud Award For Literature (1975) ; United Nations Award For Excellence In Literature (1998); Deauville Award For Literary Excellence In France;
Fernanda Pivano Award For Literary In Italy
Join us for something fun.
Fior d'Italia
2237 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA
(415) 986-1886
Tuesday September 15, 2015
12 noon
$45
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SF Luncheon Society
This will be a great deal of fun. Of course we thank a very special dear friend of The Luncheon Society,
Naomi Epel for her help in putting this together.
She is simply magnificent.
Best,
Bob McBarton
The Luncheon Society
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Erica Jong joins The Luncheon Society
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| Fear of Dying--The Trailer |
Four decades ago, Erica Jong revolutionized the way we look at love, marriage and sex. Her world-wide bestseller, FEAR OF FLYING opened the doors for writers from Jennifer Weiner to Lena Dunham. Now she does it again by giving us powerful, new perspective on the next phase of women's lives. Full of the sly humor, deep wisdom and poignancy we know from her poetry, fiction and essays, she delivers the novel women everywhere have been waiting for...
FEAR OF DYING
As the afternoon of life looms over Vanessa Wonderman, she watches her parents age, attends doctor appointments with her pregnant daughter, and sits by the hospital bed of her husband, Asher, fifteen years her senior. With her best years as an actress behind her, she's discovering that beginnings are easy, but endings can be hard.
Could her fountain of youth fantasies be fulfilled on zipless.com? A site inspired by the writings of her best friend, Isadora Wing, it promises "no strings attached" encounters-and Vanessa is so restless that she's willing to try anything.
Fear of Dying is a daring and delightful look at what it really takes to be human and female in the 21st century. Wildly funny and searingly honest, it is a story for everyone who has ever been shaken and changed by love.
More.....
Read a preview to Fear of Dying
The Atlantic-The Fearless Erica Jong/9.2015
Erica's web site
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he New York Times/ Fear of Flying Plus 40
Only one question-are you in?
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Lite Luncheon
The Luncheon Society gathering with Erica Jong will take place in San Francisco on Tuesday September 15, 2015.
The lunch will begin at
12 noon
and will run for a little longer than an hour.
The Restaurant.
The luncheon will take place at Fior d'Italia in San Francisco. We will be meeting in their private room. The restaurant is located at 2237 Mason Street. The phone number is 415.986.1886. The website is
http://www.fior.com/
Map
The Price.
Like in all TLS events, we basically split the check. Based on conversations with Fior d'Italia, the cost for the gathering will be $45.00 per person for a great 2 course luncheon.
Books
Erica will graciously sign books. We will have Fear of Flying (40th anniversary edition) plus he new book Fear of Dying.
Our Very Modest Annual Dues.
If you need to handle this, please do
Cancellations
Sometimes, as they say in the movies, life intercedes. If you wish to attend but have a change in plans, please let me know 72 hours prior so that I can inform the restaurant.
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| Dining Choices. The "Lite Luncheon" will have a starter and a main entrée. Let me know about any dietary issues or restrictions. |
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Biography
A 1963 graduate of Barnard College, and with an M.A. in 18th century English Literature from Columbia University (1965), Erica Jong is best known for her first novel, Fear of Flying (1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires. Although it contains many sexual elements, the book is mainly the account of a young, hypersensitive woman, in her late twenties, trying to find who she is and where she is going. It contains many psychological, humorous, descriptive elements, and rich cultural and literary references. The book tries to answer the many conflicts arising in women in today's world, of womanhood, femininity, love, one's quest for freedom and purpose.
Jong was born and grew up in New York City. She is the middle daughter of Seymour Mann (né Nathan Weisman, died 2004), a drummer turned businessman of Polish Jewish ancestry who owned a gifts and home accessories company known as "one of the world's most acclaimed makers of collectible porcelain dolls". Born in England of a Russian immigrant family, her mother, Eda Mirsky (born 1911), was a painter and textile designer who also designed dolls for her husband's company. Jong has an elder sister, Suzanna, who married Lebanese businessman Arthur Daou, and a younger sister, Claudia, a social worker who married Gideon S. Oberweger (the chief executive officer of Seymour Mann Inc. until his death in 2006). Among her nephews is Peter Daou, who writes "The Daou Report" for salon.com and was one-half of the dance-music group The Daou.
Jong has been married four times. Her first two marriages, to college sweetheart Michael Werthman and to Allan Jong, a Chinese American psychiatrist, share many similarities to those of the narrator described in Fear of Flying. Her third husband was Jonathan Fast, a novelist and social work educator, and son of novelist Howard Fast (this marriage was described in How to Save Your Own Life and Parachutes and Kisses). She has a daughter from her third marriage, Molly Jong-Fast. Jong is now married to Kenneth David Burrows , a New York litigation attorney. In the late 1990s Jong wrote an article about her current marriage in the magazine Talk.
Jong lived for three years, 1966-69, in Heidelberg, Germany, with her second husband, while he was stationed at an army base there. She was a frequent visitor to Venice, and wrote about that city in her novel, Shylock's Daughter. Jong is mentioned in the Bob Dylan song "Highlands."
In 2007, her literary archive was acquired by Columbia University in New York City.
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| The Luncheon Society™
is a series of private luncheons and dinners that take place in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Boston and now Seattle and soon Washington DC. We essentially split the costs of gathering and we meet in small groups. Discussions center on politics, art, science, film, culture, and whatever else is on our mind. Think of us as "Adult Drop in Daycare." We've been around since 1997 and we're purposely understated. These gatherings takes place around a large table, where you interact with the main guest and conversation becomes end result. There are no rules, very little structure, and the gatherings happen when they happen. Join us when you can. Hope you can join us. Bob McBarton [email protected] The Luncheon Society cell 925.216.9578 Twitter: @LuncheonSociety
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