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Molly Jong-Fast on How to Survive Anything

Molly Jong-Fast on How to Survive Anything

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Molly Jong-Fast is best known as a writer and political
commentator. But before she became the host of Fast Politics with
Molly Jong-Fast, a regular on MSNBC, and a novelist and memoirist,
she was the daughter of Erica Jong. Jong catapulted to
literary stardom with her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The bold
— and, at the time — shocking story of a married woman looking for
casual sex made her a literary icon of second-wave feminism. And
although Jong-Fast was an only child, she grew up sharing her life
with the fictional alter-egos Jong created and longing for a deeper
connection with her alcoholic and mostly-absent mother. But now,
Jong-Fast has turned the tables. She’s written an unsparing memoir
about her relationship with her mother and Jong’s struggle with
dementia titled, How to Lose Your Mother. Kara talks to Molly
about difficult mothers, the perils of writing a memoir, her pivot
to journalism, and what gives her hope for America.
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