Molly Jong-Fast Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Molly Jong-Fast

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion wrote.What she meant was that we need stories to organize our understanding of the world, particularly when bad things happen.But perhaps, in the political realm, we’re not dependent enough.... https://t.co/KZQNX0sC0A

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This is madness, Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” is one of my absolute favorite kids books. These people are out of their minds. https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1516062838422392836

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I am reminded of the first paragraph of Janet Malcolm’s excellent “the journalist and the murderer.” https://t.co/BZbvFjWWTV

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“….including the novelist Howard Fast, who wrote about the experience in his memoir “Being Red.” All of them were held in contempt. None of them had been allowed to have their lawyers with them during their testimony.” https://t.co/XmJLUSdhVS

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RT @mariskreizman: RIP Anne Rice. I remember when I was a little kid my mother read The Vampire Lestat and as she was reading she'd stop to…

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RT @Drrramina: Bean stole my copy of Secret Identity and is clearly plotting her super hero years. @alex_segura’s new book is pure 🔥 and is…

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I’m interviewing @Max_Fisher for @NewAbnormalPod and we’re talking about his new book “the chaos machine” and he’s telling me about how profoundly evil Facebook’s effect in Myanmar was. https://t.co/C5s4ZAkSCm

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“The problem of fashionable feminist activism followed by extreme backlash is a known problem for the American women’s movement. It has been ever since it was chronicled by Susan Faludi in her 1991 classic Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women” https://t.co/4DFHDNSk3r