Wed Jun 18 2025

The writer, journalist, and political commentator Molly Jong-Fast joins us to discuss her new memoir, “How to Lose Your Mother.” Reflecting on a devastating year—one in which her once-famous mother, the author and second-wave feminist Erica Jong, was diagnosed with dementia and her husband with a rare form of cancer—Jong-Fast talks about her mother’s best-selling 1973 novel “Fear of Flying” and her own actual fear of flying, 27 years of sobriety and how her time in A.A. has transformed her life, and the importance of confronting the vicissitudes of aging and one’s passage through time.