Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice (33 page)

Jong around 1988, looking at artwork by Joseph Smith created for her illustrated book
Witches
. Jong explored the work of many artists, but in the end, she selected Smith's work because she found his illustrations to be both spooky and sexy at the same time.

Jong at the Hôtel de Crillion, photographed for a newspaper feature. Jong liked this photograph so much that she used it in her poetry book
Becoming Light
.

Jong in Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Israel, for a literature festival. Jong has also taught at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, Israel.

Jong and Ken Burrows in their book-lined apartment. They collect rare first editions of Joyce, Eliot, Dickens, Beckett, Miller, Updike, Nabokov, and Radclyffe Hall.

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Excerpt from the English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin of
Don Giovanni,
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“The Fifth Elegy,” from
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell, copyright © 1982 by Stephen Mitchell. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

Copyright © 1987 by Erica Jong

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