Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech

“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 Reviews

A 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 celebrity interviews 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 Gerwig
• Silver screen foxes such as Paul Newman, Idris Elba, and Ralph Fiennes
• Funny people like Tina Fey, Mel Brooks, and Larry David
• Fashionistas from Andre Leon Talley to Ann Roth to Tom Ford
• And media and tech titans like Elon Musk, Bob Iger, and Peter Thiel

Notorious is the perfect antidote to our current political malaise and an intimate collection of pop culture commentary from a legend in American journalism.

"Dowd was born to write about this race. And she dissects its main characters with poison in her pen and poetic punch in her delivery. . . . Dowd surely captures the theater of our politics better than anyone else: The Clintons. The Trumps. The Obamas. The Bushes. She has been in their heads as long as they have been on our minds. She's the establishment's resident shrink." - New York Times Book Review on The Year of Voting Dangerously

"The ultimate political satire, a human comedy of errors full of sound and fury, signifying everything. Dowd, the red-haired siren of snark, has . . . held her place. Presidents come and go, but journalists tend to stick around. It has to be said: The Dowd abides." - Washington Post on The Year of Voting Dangerously

"Maureen Dowd bakes a cookie with razor blades for the trick-or-treating nominees in The Year of Voting Dangerously." - Sloane Crosley, bestselling author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake, on The Year of Voting Dangerously

"Juicy." - Los Angeles Times