Publisher's Synopsis
In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working- class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the characatures of 'the homeless' and 'the housewife' , Allen Ginsberg and Marilyn Monroe, feminist utopias (and why she doesn't live in one), why fiction isn't physics; and of course, fame, sex and money, not necessarily in that order. Always personal yet always political, Piercy's work is drawn from a deep well of feminist and political
