Erica Jong says that was the biggest mistake of her career. READ MORE. Jong is way too bossy for her own good. I remember inviting her to a roundtable lunch I used to organize for Hearst's John Mack Carter every month in New York back in the 1990s. She was so nasty on the phone while barking demands that we had to pull the plug on the whole thing. But I digress. Read how Jong torpedoed things on the other coast.