Jong's memoir describes a one-night stand more than 20 years ago at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, publishing's largest trade show. "Nothing said or done there should morally count," Jong writes. "Everyone is exhausted."
At least that's her explanation of how she spent a night in the hotel room of publisher Andy Stewart, who was then married to Jong's college classmate from Barnard, Martha Stewart. This was before Stewart "was a convicted felon or had sprouted synthetic wings from going to jail for a few months," as Jong puts it.
Her book names Andy Stewart "only because Martha hasn't stopped talking about it for 26 years, telling everyone I ruined her marriage."
Jong wishes she "had the sexual power (Martha) attributes to me. Actually, I believe I had very little to do with the problems in her marriage. I was just a pawn in a power struggle, a spear-carrier in her opera." Jong also writes, "Sleeping with married men is always trouble, I have forsworn it."
source: USA Today
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