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Author Erica Jong rips Arianna Huffington for not paying writers

Novelist says what she thinks of media chiefs Erica Jong, author of the best-selling 1973 novel Fear of Flying (and many books since), has often courted controversy by saying in public just what she thinks. Now 70, she is still happy to speak out, as a US-based website called The…

Because it’s still just Mommy

Taffy Brodesser-Akner asks the same question that keeps cropping up over and over: why are there mommy wars? In this particular case, she’s asking why Erica Jong couldn’t write an article critical of attachment parent ideology without creating over-the-top flamewars? But take a closer look at the comments on Jong’s…