On a recent Friday night, the 26-year-old writer Royal Young held a reading of his unpublished memoir Fame Shark at the Lower East Side home of his parents. He had hoped to use the apartment rooftop, but it looked like rain so the event was held indoors. When The Observer arrived, Molly Jong-Fast, Read More
Erica Jong wrote a piece in this Sunday’s New York Times about the youth backlash against sex–informed by her daughter! “If their mothers discovered free sex, then they want to rediscover monogamy. My daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, who is in her mid-30s, wrote an essay called ‘They Had Sex So I Didn’t Have To,’” Read More
The 29-year-old novelist Molly Jong-Fast completely, entirely, totally adores the Upper East Side.
Ms. Jong-Fast, the only child of Erica Jong, who wrote the sexed-up 1973 feminist gem Fear of Flying, paid $4.95 million last month, city records show, for a four-bedroom co-op overlooking Madison Avenue.
“Part of me feels that what Read More
If they squint, the extended Jong-Fast clan—a family of artists, writers and wild-child red diaperlings—can trace their history all the way back to the father of Yiddish literature.
“Sholom Aleichem is the oldest possible relative that Grandpa claimed,” said Molly Jong-Fast, the 28-year-old writer. “There’s some story about that, that he was related to Grandpa Read More
A few days before the publication of The Sex Doctors in the Basement, Molly Jong-Fast’s rambling, name-dropping, half-crazy but very funny memoir, the 26-year-old writer met The Transom for sushi on the Upper East Side. In this book of essays about growing up Jong (she’s the daughter of Fear of Flying author Erica Jong and Read More
Jazzy Forever
Jazzy is dead; long live Jazzy Jr. As Off the Record’s Sridhar Pappu reported last month, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams’ beloved Yorkshire terrier, Jazzy, died this past summer. But his memory persists, both in a new Saks Fifth Avenue boutique and in the name of Ms. Adams’ replacement dog, Jazzy Jr. Read More
Matthew Greenfield and Molly Jong-Fast
Met: June 6, 2002
Engaged: Feb. 16, 2003
Projected Wedding Date: January 2004
Molly Jong-Fast, 24, the daughter of the woman who coined the term “zipless fuck” and a candidate for an M.F.A. in creative writing from Bennington College, is engaged to Matt Greenfield, 39, a professor Read More
Mike Weiss, a would-be impresario of the art world, has seen the giant lofts of SoHo and he wants in. But as he puts together his first show, he hasn’t exactly made the best impression on some members of the New York art establishment.
“I think he has lousy manners,” said Holly Solomon, the 65-year-old Read More
