Molly Jong-Fast did not want to write "a book like this." What kind of book is that? One that tells "the story of what happens when the bottom falls out, when all the tests come back bad, when the ...

The book cover of "How to Lose Your Mother" and author Molly Jong-Fast. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Marilyn Minter) The book explores Jong-Fast's troubled relationship with her mother, "Fear ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “I wanted my story to be in the vein of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking—the year of your life ...

"They f*** you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin once memorably wrote. "They may not mean to, but they do." Now surely the great British poet and novelist, who died three decades ago, did not set ...

Molly Jong-Fast was reticent to write How to Lose Your Mother, her memoir about her mom, Fear of Flying author Erica Jong. “What I didn’t want was to subject other people to my therapy,” Jong-Fast, 46 ...

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, ...

When Fear of Flying, her autobiographical novel about women’s sexual desires, came out in 1973, Erica Jong was suddenly big news. But growing up as her only child, I had a very different experience In ...

Publishing this week: new fiction from Susan Choi, essays from Evan Osnos and memoir from Molly Jong-Fast. Plus, Melissa Febos reflects on her... "They f*** you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin ...