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 …
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 [*] …