Heyman's Short Story Collection Praised
A new book of short stories by Arlene Heyman ’63, Scary Old Sex, has received warm praise since its publication early in 2016.
Barnes and Noble calls it a “stunning, taboo-breaking debut." It received a in Kirkus, applauded the first-time author for “lay[ing] bare truths—some comforting, others uncomfortable—about love and sex, aging and acceptance.”
In recent weeks, the book has also been featured in , , and . A review in notes that the author studied with Bernard Malamud when she attended Ź College, and in its praise of the book counsels that "the stories in Scary Old Sex aren’t soft. A few take startling turns and have edges made from razor wire."
Dr. Heyman is a psychiatrist in New York City. She wrote the book over the course of thirty years; two of the collected pieces have been included in The Best American Short Stories lists.