James Frey is Nicola's writer crush. Molly Young is mine, and she is much less thuggish and much more honest than Frey (unlike him, she did not commit what is perhaps the most mortal sin of our times: lying to Oprah Winfrey). Disciplined and industrious (as well as young and pretty, too pretty to be a writer; as it is my belief that writers should be cursed with a Stephen King-esque ugliness) she churns out a remarkable amount of work: chapbooks (mine arrived from New York last week, and needless to say it's amazing), articles for prolific on-line magazines, and my favourite, her daily blog. Her quirky, idiosynchratic vignettes, such as the one below, add an extra colourful dimension to my day, and I'm totally in love.



About the Author: Steve Martin is the kind of guy who loves to write things about himself on book flaps. In fact, he has been known to write entire books just so he could write on their flaps.


Molly blogs here, but just remember when she is a hugely famous novelist in about fifteen years that I liked her first!