American author and pundit (born 1978)

Molly Jong-Fast (born August 19, 1978) is an American writer, author, and podcaster.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Twitter
• 4 Publications
• 5 References
• 6 Further reading

Career

As of November 2021, Jong-Fast is a Contributing Writer at The Atlantic and at Vogue. She had previously worked as an editor-at-large at The Daily Beast. She is the author of two novels; Normal Girl and The Social Climber's Handbook, and a memoir; Girl , originally published as The Sex Doctors in the Ba*t. She is a regular contributor to Playboy, Glamour, The Atlantic and The Bulwark. She began hosting The Daily Beast podcast The New Abnormal in 2020, and is the writer of The Atlantic's Wait, What? newsletter. Kirkus Reviews has described her as "the Joan Rivers for slackers".

Personal life

Jong-Fast is the daughter of novelist Erica Jong and author Jonathan Fast, and the granddaughter of Howard Fast. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was raised as an only child. She attended Barnard College prior to receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree at Bennington College in 2004. In 2003 she married CUNY professor Matthew Adlai Greenfield; the couple has three children. She has written about her experience with Alcoholics Anonymous.

Twitter

In May of 2022, Jong-Fast's name was in the news after Tesla CEO Elon Musk came under fire for allegedly supporting the doxing of her on Twitter. After journalist Glenn Greenwald shared an article about Jong-Fast purchasing a $5 million condo in New York City's wealthy Upper East Side neighborhood, Musk shared a SpongeBob SquarePants meme apparently mocking her for her purchase. This came after Jong-Fast's criticism of Musk's complaints about "woke" censorship. She claimed that his outrage was an example of "rich white men bullies" being upset with "young people."

Publications

• Normal Girl (2000). ISBN:0-37-575759-7
• The Sex Doctors in the Ba*t: True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood (2005). ISBN:1-40-006144-X.
• Girl : True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood (2006). ISBN:0-81-297074-8
• The Social Climber's Handbook: A novel (2011). ISBN:0-34-550189-6

References

Further reading

• Pengelly, Martin (March 7, 2021). "'Talk to me': Molly Jong-Fast on podcasting in the new abnormal". The Guardian.
• Richardson, Davis (June 6, 2019). "Molly Jong-Fast Throws the Perfect Dinner Party for Political Operatives, Pundits, and Upper East Side Princesses". Interview Magazine.