July 16 My friends at Playboy threw an awesome party for me at Elaine’s tonight. It was just the best time, and I was happy to see so many old friends and colleagues, people who have given me so much help and opportunity and encouragement over the years. Thanks to Christie Hefner and Chris Napolitano …
In The Wall Street Journal today (Friday the 13th), my new favorite writer Kyle Smith gave The Coup what can only be called a rave review. “The Coup,” writes Smith, film critic of The New York Post, “out-Buckleys Christopher Buckley with its foul-mouthed honchos, twisted strivers and snaky reporters, all of them slightly less deserving …
JULY 11 Received a thoughtful review in The New York Observer on July 11. Under the delightful headline `A Romp Through the D.C. Underbrush’, Ana Marie Cox–who could cure cancer and open the first discoteque on the moon and still be forever known as the woman who used write Wonkette–writes “Jamie Malanowski’s debut novel [*] …