Molly Jong-Fast

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Articles

No Kings for a Day

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

The 250th Army anniversary military parade-slash-79th birthday celebration was the kind of patriotic (and self-promotional) spectacle that Donald Trump had longed for since early in his first administration.
How Caring for My Mother Taught Me the True Meaning of Strength

2 weeks ago | oprahdaily.com | Molly Jong-Fast

I never thought I’d be the kind of kid who puts their parents in a home. In my mind, nursing homes were a dirty word, a place you sent people when you didn’t love them anymore. But the year my husband got diagnosed with cancer, my mother got diagnosed with dementia, and my stepfather’s Parkinson’s became dementia, too, everything changed for me. I decided to write a memoir about this year, the worst of my life.
Donald Trump, coup de force ou aveu de faiblesse ?

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.fr | Molly Jong-Fast

Les demonstrations de force de l’administration Trump se sont intensifiés ce week-end, Donald Trump ayant envoyé la Garde nationale à Los Angeles pour réprimer les manifestations contre les campagnes de détention et de déportation menées par l’agence de l’immigration (ICE).
Donald Trump’s Projecting Panic, Not Power

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

The Trump administration’s efforts to show strength grew more fevered this past weekend, with Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell protests against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s detention and deportation campaigns.
My mother was a famous feminist writer known for her candour and wit. But she was also a fantasist who couldn’t be bothered to spend time raising me

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Molly Jong-Fast

In August 1978, I was born in a hospital in Stamford, Connecticut. I came out with red hair. This was proof to my mother that I was special. The fantasy of my specialness continued my entire life. I was special even though I was dyslexic. I was special even though I got kicked out of college. I was special even though I was a drug addict. I was special despite my fatness. I was special despite all the evidence to the contrary. I was special because I was a piece of her.
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir

2 weeks ago | bookreporter.com | Molly Jong-Fast

“I am the only child of a once-famous woman…. To say my mother and I are close doesn’t really express the full magnitude of the relationship. We are painfully, inexorably, chronically close, the way magnets are. Sometimes when I lie in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, I’m not even sure I exist without her. She created me and I enabled her.”And so it begins. HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is the newly published memoir of Molly Jong-Fast, the only child of FEAR OF FLYING author Erica Jong.
In 'How to Lose Your Mother,' MSNBC pundit Molly Jong-Fast remembers her mom Erica Jong

3 weeks ago | wglt.org | Molly Jong-Fast

By Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with MSNBC commentator Molly Jong-Fast about her new book: " How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir."The book explores Jong-Fast's troubled relationship with her mother, "Fear of Flying" author Erica Jong. Book excerpt: 'How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir'By Molly Jong-Fast From "How to Lose Your Mother" by Molly Jong-Fast, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Molly Jong-Fast on Human Frailty and Unlearning Erica Jong’s Lessons

3 weeks ago | lithub.com | Molly Jong-Fast

It was a week that felt like a year, one of those weeks that contained all the scary things you might spend your life worrying about, the things that might never happen. Our very elderly diabetic dog, Spartacus, had had a grand mal seizure on our bed. Article continues after advertisementDuring the seizure, I wondered if I too had slipped into unreality.
'How to Lose Your Mother,' by Molly Jong-Fast

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Molly Jong-Fast

In the memoir "How to Lose Your Mother," Molly Jong-Fast recalls a tumultuous upbringing as the only child of the feminist writer Erica Jong. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.
It’s “What the Friday!?!” with Molly Jong-Fast!

4 weeks ago | therickwilson.substack.com | Rick Wilson |Molly Jong-Fast

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