Notes from Evan Smith
"Today's guest, celebrity blogger turned celebrated debut novelist Ana Marie Cox, is oftentimes what those crazy kids on the Internet refer to as NSFW, as in Not Safe for Work -- meaning she has a tendency to discuss matters of the bedroom out in the open, in language that would curl your grandmother's hair. Alas, not for the next half-hour. But if you read the political blog Wonkette during the two years in which she was its heart, soul, brain, and libido, you know that 33-year-old Cox is provocative even when she doesn't mean to be, so the next half-hour should be must-see TV. Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Austin and Dallas, Cox is one of a handful of forward personalities who've made their name posting random thoughts, pointed commentary, and other intimate musings on blogs, which, if you've been living under a rock, are part diary, part bulletin board, part personal editorial page. After stints contributing to suck.com, feedmag.com, and inside.com, she was hired to launch
wonkette.com by Web entrepreneur Nick Denton in early 2004, stepping down at the end of last year just as too-true her novel about politics, Dog Days, arrived in bookstores to mostly good reviews, including a glowing one in the Sunday
New York Times. Next up for Cox: a non-fiction book about young conservative activists, a hefty advance, and, surely, even more celebrity. This one's a keeper." - Evan Smith, Texas Monthly Talks, Broadcast 2.9.06
