Molly Jong-Fast

What the FBI Had on Grandpa

J. Edgar Hoover thought Howard Fast was an un-American menace. To my family, he was just a menace, period. But his file tells a different story.

Reading Martha Stewart’s Lips

“Didn’t you ruin Martha Stewart’s marriage?” I asked my mother. I was typing furiously. I wondered if she could hear my fingers smacking at the keys. 

My Mother’s Daughter

By the time I was three years old, my parents embarked upon the hippie version of irreconcilable differences. As a consequence, I don’t remember them ever being together, which is probably a good thing.