A fake baby MSNBC star has revealed plans to spread dirty laundry about her iconic author mother in an upcoming book.
Molly Jong-Fast, 46, has started promoting How To Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir on social media app Bluesky.
Jong-Fast, whose mother is iconic feminist writer Erica Jong, also shared a synopsis of the tome, which read: “Erica Jong’s daughter’s delightful and desperate memoir of an intense mother-daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a… fame-hungry parent, and how that can really mess you up.”
The liberal MSNBC host, an outspoken anti-Trumper, has long been accused of using her mother’s fame and reputation to launch her media career.
Erica Jong is best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying, a semi-autobiographical work on topics such as sex, fantasy and desire – all from a woman’s perspective.
Figures such as John Updike and Henry Miller have praised the book, with the latter calling it a female version of ‘Tropic of Cancer’.
Despite causing some controversy for his frank, sex-laden talk, it launched Jong’s career. The work paved the way for a litany of books that were eventually acquired by Columbia University and praised by Bob Dylan.
But first she married Jong-Fast’s father, fellow novelist Jonathan Fast, in 1977. The following year they gave birth to their daughter, who is now about to reveal secrets about her hyper-privileged upbringing on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Jong-Fast previously milked her mother’s success for an earlier memoir published in 2005 with the subtitle: ‘True stories from a semi-famous childhood.’
Since then, the visual arts graduate became involved in politics from 2016 onwards. She held positions at Playboy, Glamour, Vogue, The Daily Beast and Vanity Fair before signing with MSNBC.
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MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong-Fast, 46, promoted a new memoir on both X and Bluesky Sunday, nine years after embarking on a career as a political writer. Here you can see her bashing Donald Trump on air against colleague Jen Psaki a few days earlier
Before pursuing a career as a political writer, Jong-Fast was raised by author Erica Jong, who is 82 and has been diagnosed with dementia. The book describes their relationship as ‘complicated’, and one that ‘can really confuse you’
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Both posts pointed to a cryptic blurb about the upcoming tome, pitching it as a “compulsively readable memoir about an intense mother-daughter relationship.”
It was said to have been written in 2023 after Jong was diagnosed with dementia and Jong-Fast’s husband, New York-based university professor Matthew Greenfield, was found to have cancer.
“(It surrounds) a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and the upheavals that test our hard-won adulthood,” the synopsis continues.
A perfect balance between acceptance and anger, humor and heart, How to Lose Your Mother tells a universal story about loss alongside a unique story about a literary life.
“This is a memoir that will stand alongside the classics of the genre,” it ultimately concluded.
This week, she hinted at what’s to come in her memoir, in posts for both Bluesky and X, where she has a prominent following thanks to posts disparaging conservatives and supporting progressive ideals.
Jong-Fast signs copies of her first book ‘Normal Girl’ here in 2000, when she was 22. The book was a novel and was followed by another memoir about his childhood, released in 2005.
Five years before the birth of her only daughter, Jong – seen here together with Jong-fast at the same signing session – wrote 1973’s Fear of Flying, a semi-autobiographical work on topics such as sex, fantasy and desire that received critical acclaim and topped the bestseller list. stood. lists
No further details have been provided, as Jong-Fast continues to appear on MSNBC and post scathing criticism of figures such as Donald Trump and Elon Musk on social media.
She told colleague Jen Psaki on Monday how she believed Trump had taken over the Oval Office from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: “One of the things that (Trump) did that was very smart was he went to these websites, he went to these podcasts.
“He met people where they were…Joe Rogan. He supported Bernie Sanders. “If Democrats want to win those voters, they need to go to those places,” she continued, speaking on behalf of women voters.
“A lot of us thought that because Trump was a criminal, that would be disqualifying,” the political pundit with nine years of experience continued, grinning.
“Or January 6…or whatever things he did. And for a large portion of the American voting public, they were not disqualified.”
“Like what are we doing here?” the blue-blooded author posted last week, in response to Trump’s comments about asserting control over Denmark-controlled Greenland.
A day earlier, she raised concerns about Musk’s previous championing of disgraced near-AG Matt Gaetz, whom the billionaire had only weeks ago heralded as a Hammer of Justice.”
“Trump nominated this person to be attorney general,” she added, sharing the damning ethics committee report on the former congressman’s misdeeds, which she called “infuriating.”
His work paved the way for a litany of books that were eventually acquired by Columbia University and praised by Bob Dylan
Jong-Fast’s new book – her fourth – is about “a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a parent hungry for fame, and the upheavals that test our hard-won adulthood,” she writes. Jong-Fast was spotted at a variety show in New York City last year
She is seen here again with fellow author Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and Isaac Mizrahi, following the release of her second novel, The Social Climber’s Handbook, in 2011
Unlike her mother’s, none of Jong-Fast’s works have made it onto a bestseller list, and this is the first since her foray into politics. It is scheduled for release in June, she said, with links to sites to pre-order. She is seen here in 2015, just before the start of her career in political acumen
Such criticism has become common among the journalist in recent years, after she was one of many to ride the post-2015 political wave.
Trump’s successful first campaign ushered in the commentary, which became increasingly idiosyncratic as the decade progressed.
This paved the way for success for figures like Jong-Fast, who used the writing background she inherited from her mother and father – himself the son of successful novelist Howard Fast – to wax poetic about politics.
Before that, she released three books, including her 2005 memoir, which she advertised as a true story about growing up among New York’s rich and famous, and a revolving door of nannies, secretaries and potential stepfathers.
“I thought… this is the time to write about these people because they are so crazy,” the young author — who now has three children — told the Arizona Daily Sun at the time.
This time the story is perhaps less kind to her demented mother, with the author telling future readers that such a relationship can “really mess you up.”
Another description describes Jong-Fast as “the only child of a famous woman,” and her book is about “her elusive mother’s advancing dementia and… her complicated childhood.”
The book can already be pre-ordered and will be published on June 3.