Fear of Flying

Doesn’t Diane English Have Any Ideas of Her Own?

September 12, 2008 at 11:39am PST

Tags: Diane English, Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Kate Winslet, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Women

Photos: splashnewsonline.com

Diane English isn’t content simply demolishing film classics, now she wants to destroy Erica Jong’s infamously controversial 1973 novel Fear of Flying, a book legendary for sparking a new level of feminism, female sexuality and coining the phrase (and practice) of “the zipless f—k,” a sexual encounter had without emotional attachments strictly for the sake of enjoyment.

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