Molly Jong-Fast

MSNBC Political Analyst, Host of the Fast Politics Podcast & Vanity Fair Special Correspondent. Molly Jong-Fast is an American writer, journalist, author, political commentator and podcaster. Jong-Fast is the author of three books and her memoir “How To Lose Your Mother” will be coming out from Viking in the June of 2025. You can find her on threads/x/ instagram as mollyjongfast.

 

Brett Martin

Brett Martin is the author of Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution, a longtime correspondent for GQ Magazine and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and many others. He has won three James Beard Awards for journalism. 

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