Media Spotlight for Ana Marie Cox After Wonkette Exit

Posted on January 7, 2006

Ana Marie Cox is getting a great deal of coverage from the mainstream media and the blogosphere after deciding to step down from Wonkette and work on her career as a novelist. There are 270+ stories on Google News and hundreds of blog posts in the past few days as the Technorati graph on the right indicates.

In an excerpt from a Time magazine interview Ana Marie Cox says she stepped down because two years of full-time blogging at Wonkette felt like an eternity.

Cox told Time, "Well, I had been doing it for two years, which is an eternity in blogtime. And I have a contract to write another book. It seemed like a good time to let someone else not wear the pants."

She described her work at Wonkette as like "throwing spitballs." She says, "Washington is a lot like high school, and they were missing a class clown, I guess."

Ana Marie Cox's first novel, Dog Days, is in stores now. She has already signed a second book deal for a nonfiction book with Riverhead Books. Taking Cox's place at Wonkette.com will be David Lat, the lawyer who used to secretly write the Underneath Their Robes blog.