Molly Jong-Fast Presents, "How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir"

Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of feminist writer Erica Jong. Molly grew up yearning for a connection with her dreamy, glamorous, just out of reach mother, who always seemed to be heading somewhere that wasn’t with Molly. 

You’re invited to hear Molly Jong-Fast discuss her new book, How To Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir with Kathleen Saxton. How to Lose Your Mother is a compulsively readable memoir about an intense mother–daughter relationship, a sometimes-chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and the upheavals that challenge our hard-won adulthood. 

Here is a link to The New York Times book review of Molly's new book: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/books/review/molly-jong-fast-how-to-lose-your-mother.html?searchResultPosition=1

Molly Jong-Fast is a contributing writer at Vanity Fair, a political analyst at MSNBC News, and host of the podcast Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast. After publishing novels like Normal Girl and The Social Climber’s Handbook, she shifted to political writing after the 2016 election, quickly building a large social media following. In 2019, she became editor-at-large at The Daily Beast and co-hosted The New Abnormal podcast. She graduated from Barnard College and earned her MFA from Bennington College. Jong-Fast lives in Manhattan with her husband and their three children.

Kathleen Saxton is a psychotherapist, executive coach, author and advisor. Her new book, My Parent The Peacock: Discovery and Recovery from Narcissistic Parenting, was released September 23, 2025.