“When you get old, doing even ordinary things becomes a triumph.”

"I tell myself I’m quite stylish... for a woman of my age," the author says.

Catherine Hiller’s weekly Substack newsletter is The Pleasure Principle. She is writing a book about pleasure for those over 50 as well as a humor book about old age. Her pioneering memoir, “Just Say Yes: A Marijuana Memoir,” was recently reissued in a 10th-anniversary edition. Her most recent novel, “Cybill Unbound,” is about the sexual adventures of an older woman. Hiller is also the author of a short story collection, “Skin,” which John Updike called “Good, brave, and joyful fiction,” and five other novels. Short pieces have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review, AARP Magazine, Ms., the Girlfriend, NextTribe, the Westchester Review and the Antioch Review. She is co-producer of the documentary film “Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider.”

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