From her Upper East Side living room, Ms. In Woody Allen’s “Purple Rose of Cairo,” a moviegoer steps into the screen and enters the world of her favorite film. In the run-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, she has interviewed Senators Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Fetterman and Ms. The first guest on her new podcast, distributed by the mega network iHeartMedia, was President Biden’s chief of staff. One million people follow her on Twitter. On Wednesday, she joined Vanity Fair as a special correspondent. Now, within a certain rarefied slice of American political life, she is a star. Jong-Fast went to rehab at 19, married at 23, and wrote a couple of novels and a book of essays about her bohemia-by-way-of-Park-Avenue upbringing. Jong-Fast, 44, was known for being the daughter of her mother, Erica Jong, whose novel “Fear of Flying” is a feminist classic. “ … Of the United States?”įor much of her life, Ms. “I just interviewed the vice president!” Ms. The owner of The New Republic, Win McCormack, stopped to say hello. The editors of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair greeted her with hugs. headed to the Century, the Manhattan literary club where she was throwing a book party for the media critic Margaret Sullivan, a friend. Molly Jong-Fast had just finished interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris for her podcast when she hopped in an Uber S.U.V.
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