The Lives of Others, one of our favorite films from this past year, has just come out on DVD. Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the movie is about the cheapening of life in a police state, and, not so incidentally, how simple acts of courage can inspire others to take a stand. …
Thanks to Barnes and Noble Astor Place, which hosted a reading for me on August 14th. It’s always flattering to a giantish picture of yourself in a store window. A special thanks to Paul for arranging things and introducing me, and to my friends Marilyn Haft, Judy Arthur, Joanne Gruber, Carol Vinzant, Carolyn Pilkington and …
It’s very hard to sit through No End In Sight (see the trailer here), the new documentary by Charles Ferguson about the American misadventure in Iraq, and not feel deeply dismayed. In a series of interviews with soldiers and diplomats and policy makers who desired nothing more than to fulfill the president’s goal of free …
Had a terrific interview on Bloomberg Night Talk with Mike Schneider on August 7. We discussed the book, satire, art imitating life, and working at Playboy. I’m thrilled that they invited me. Me, holding forth on Night Talk. Mike Schneider and me on Night Talk. I love being framed with financial data.
Fredericksburg, the beautiful Virginia town on the banks of the Rapidan where North and South clashed in December 1862, is also the home of a newspaper called The Free Lance Star, where Ashley Messenger has written an encouraging review of The Coup. “Sometimes it’s hard to tell who to cheer for though, the dopey president, …
From a review by Louis Bayard in the July 31st edition of the Post: “Jamie Malanowski’s satirical novel will be required summer reading for C-SPAN watchers, who will happily sniff out the veiled allusions to, oh, Dennis Hastert, Sam Donaldson, Arlen Specter, Michael Beschloss, Peggy Noonan, Bill Gates, Arianna Huffington, Matt Drudge and on and …
Thanks to Rob Capriccioso, who edits the amusing, informative and often biting blog called BigHeadDC. He liked The Coup and gave it a nice review ( “a satirical tour de force of Washington” “an especially fun and funny read”), and included an interview with me, in which my connections to the notorious Washington Madam and …
Tara Boyle and Kojo Nnamdi with me at WAMU My good friends at The Washington Monthly teamed up with the lovely folks at Borders on 14th Street to hold a reading for me on Tuesday. We had a terrific turnout, and I was delighted to meet so many people whose names I knew from mastheads …
Earlier this summer, my friend Larry Doyle published his first novel, called I Love You, Beth Cooper. It’s about a geeky high school student who uses the forum of the valedictory address during graduation to announce his love for the most beautiful, popular girl in the school. Hilarity, of course, ensues. Larry has had the …
Investigative reporter John Connolly and his friend Dorothy Caravello, radio hostLisa Birnbach, and me Playboy‘s Conor Hogan and Maria Malanowski My ex-Spy mate George Kalogerakis, now of the Times Larry Doyle, author of I Love You, Beth Cooper, with me and Playboy editor Chip Rowe Writer Daniel Radosh, and Playboy editors Scott Alexander and Steve …