PERSON: Molly Jong-Fast

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

Jong-Fast is the daughter of novelist Erica Jong and author Jonathan Fast, and the granddaughter of Howard Fast. Her family is Jewish. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was raised as an only child. She has stated that her nanny “raised Catholic,” though she does not receive the sacraments.

Jong-Fast graduated from the Riverdale Country School. She attended Barnard College of Columbia University prior to receiving a Master of Fine Arts at Bennington College in 2004.

Jong-Fast 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 Basement.

After the 2016 election, Jong-Fast began focusing her writing on politics. She became a regular contributor to The Forward, The Bulwark, Playboy, Glamour, and Vogue. In December 2019, Jong-Fast became an editor-at-large at The Daily Beast, hosting the podcast The New Abnormal.

In November 2021, Jong-Fast became a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the writer of The Atlantic’s Wait, What? Newsletter.

In 2022, Jong-Fast joined Vanity Fair as a special correspondent and began hosting the Fast Politics iHeart Media podcast.

In January 2024, Jong-Fast joined MSNBC News as a political analyst. Kirkus Reviews has described her as “the Joan Rivers for slackers”.

In 2003, Jong-Fast married CUNY professor Matthew Adlai Greenfield. They have three children. Jong-Fast is a cousin of Lebanese-American political strategist Peter Daou and has written about her experience with Alcoholics Anonymous.

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