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Author Erica Jong, on Getting Panned

Seducing the Demon, the latest book by novelist Erica Jong, received a bad review in The New York Times this past Sunday.

In the past, Jong says she would have curled up in bed and thought about changing careers. But now she says that perhaps she could learn something from a critic's harsh words.

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