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...hours in a Malibu Jacuzzi. As if searching for a new definition of vulgarity, Jong writes that hostile criticism of her first novel makes her think of "Jews gassed at Auschwitz." (Actually, Fear of Flying was extravagantly overpraised.) She also contrives to turn the tragic suicide of Poet Anne Sexton (named "Jeannie" in the book) into a kind of posthumous blurb for herself...
Heidegger's own existence was an embodiment of modern philosophy. The son of a Roman Catholic sexton in southern Germany, Martin was first attracted to the priesthood. At Freiburg University, his theological interests were deflected to mathematics and science and finally to philosophy, which for him was a matter of life and death...
...Sexton felt that her poetic skills were failing. Contrary evidence is sprinkled throughout this posthumous collection...
...worn bodies soaking in Yugoslavian mud baths, ends with its own soft fade: the camera moves away as the people move away, and mist from the warm mud interposes. A film by a Boston filmmaker (they try to have one in every group of shorts) based on Anne Sexton's poem "Old," has the same quality: two schoolgirls scamper down a staircase in a sepia print, and a minute later the scene repeats but the girls disappear before they reach the bottom...
...Miss Lonelyhearts in Nathanael West's novella." A self-styled feminist, she recalls the day a high school boy asked her if she wanted to "grow up and be a secretary." Actually she always wanted to be a writer. Deeply affected by the suicide of her friend Anne Sexton, Jong is determined to be a survivor: "It is vital that other women see that female authors do not all put their heads in the oven, like Sylvia Plath...