Modern Love Author:Constance DeJong ?People used to tell me, if you keep on writing maybe you?ll make a name for yourself,? New York?based artist and writer Constance DeJong (born 1950) wrote in Modern Love. ?They were right: My name?s Constance DeJong. My name?s Fifi Corday. My name?s Lady Mirabelle, Monsieur Le Prince, and Roderigo. Roderigo?s my favorite name. First I had my fa... more »ther?s name, then my husband?s, then another?s. I don?t know. I don?t want to know the cause of anything.?
Modern Love, DeJong?s first book, was published in 1977 by Standard Editions, an imprint co-founded by DeJong and Dorothea Tanning. In 1978, the text was adapted into a 60-minute radio program accompanied by the ?Modern Love Waltz,? a piano composition by Philip Glass. In this new edition, DeJong?s debut novel is brought back into print, her dissonant shifts of voice and inimitable staccato rhythm made available to a new generation of readers.« less