Molly Jong-Fast on the '90s Feminist Classic She Thinks ‘Really Holds Up'
In 2023, author
'I wanted my story to be in the vein of Joan Didion's
The Manhattan-born, -raised, and -based MSNBC political analyst is the host of the podcast
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
, as well as a
Vanity Fair
special correspondent; went to Barnard College and earned her MFA from Bennington College; has talked extensively about getting sober at 19 (when she wrote her first book,
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…made me weep uncontrollably:
…I recommend over and over again:
...shaped my worldview:
…I swear I'll finish one day:
...has the best opening line:
'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' —
...has the greatest ending:
'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' —
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