They each have children and grandchildren through previous marriages. And there's a couple who are on a cruise. I'm going to ask you to start with a reading, and this is from one of the stories in your book. She's a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who lives and works in Manhattan.Īrlene Heyman, welcome to FRESH AIR. "Scary Old Sex" is Heyman's first book, but she's been writing throughout her life. One of the stories is dedicated to the late writer Bernard Malamud and draws on the affair Heyman had with him when she was a student and he was middle-aged and married. A 68-year-old woman watches her 99-year-old mother lose her faculties. A woman watches her husband decline as he's treated for leukemia. A remarried woman compares her husband with her late husband. Viagra may be necessary, certain positions can aggravate arthritis, death is in the background or foreground of several stories. There are some graphic sex scenes in Arlene Heyman's new collection of short stories, "Scary Old Sex." But they're mostly from the point of view of people in their 60s and 70s for whom sex is still fulfilling but requires some effort and planning.
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