Notorious, Maureen Dowd
Notorious, Maureen Dowd
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Notorious
Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech

Author: Maureen Dowd

Narrator: Maureen Dowd

Unabridged: 16 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 03/11/2025

Synopsis

“Juicy. . . . Dowd has a knack for asking questions that go right up to the edge of intrusion but instead yield thoughtful, intimate insights.”—Los Angeles Times“A pleasure. . . . Throughout, her experienced journalist’s knack for colorful quotes moves her subjects beyond their talking points. She seasons the pieces with additional reporting by those in her subjects’ orbits.”—Kirkus ReviewsA sly and chatty collection of the revered Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist’s most notorious celebrity profiles.Shining a white-hot spotlight on America’s famous, from Hollywood legends to Broadway stars to media moguls, Notorious is a captivating assortment of Maureen Dowd’s most compelling style features and profiles. Using her signature wit and incisive commentary as a scalpel, Dowd dissects influential cultural elites, including:Leading Hollywood women from Uma Thurman to Jane Fonda to Greta GerwigSilver screen foxes such as Paul Newman, Idris Elba, and Ralph FiennesFunny people like Tina Fey, Mel Brooks, and Larry DavidFashionistas from Andre Leon Talley to Ann Roth to Tom FordAnd media and tech titans like Elon Musk, Bob Iger, and Peter ThielNotorious is the perfect antidote to our current political malaise and an intimate, gossipy romp through the culture of celebrity from a legend in American journalism.

About Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, known for her sharp and incisive commentary on politics and culture. She is the author of three bestselling books: Bushworld, Are Men Necessary?, and The Year of Voting Dangerously. She lives in Washington, DC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by lost on March 19, 2025

The gossip is good and everything like that but the problem is that I feel like this is a reprint things fill away to interesting from other books. I’m not gonna name, but that’s just the problem.......more

Goodreads review by Robin on May 20, 2025

Notorious is a compilation of interviews Maureen Dowd conducted with celebrities over the past thirty years. Whether you like the book, probably depends on how familiar you are with their careers, your tolerance for dated material and tolerance for repeated questions about the trials of being famous......more

Goodreads review by Hailey on May 19, 2025

This book is a compilation of Dowd's interviews with various famous people over the past 30 years. Some feel like lovely time capsules (e.g., Paul Newman around the time of Color of Money) of the person at a specific moment in time. Where this book fails for me is the lack of reflection, save for th......more

Goodreads review by Writemoves on April 15, 2025

I am an avid reader of Miss Dowd's political columns in the New York Times. She is one of the top five political columnists in my life. I skimmed through much of this book as I am not really that interested in Hollywood or celebrities. I did enjoy the portraits of Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, Larry David,......more

Goodreads review by Bob on April 27, 2025

While I'm not normally interested in the lives of celebrities, there are a few exceptions described in this book, such as Paul Newman, Kate Winslet, and Sean Penn. I read this book primarily because I very much enjoy Maureen Dowd's columns in the NY Times. She is witty and brings her sharp wit to th......more

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