Hey, Newsvine: Let's Interview Gonzo Journalist Matt Taibbi About His New Book And His Career

A reading from Taibbi's new book - to be specific the first paragraph of the introduction:

This book came into being by means of a ridiculously long and tortouous series of editor-writer discussions, grotesque literary failures, nervous collapses, abrupt about-faces, cop-outs, lies, and other types of grossly unprofessional behavior. And what's most funny about it is that it ended more or less where it started - as a long examination of where the American public's head is in advance of the 2008 elections, forged in a crucible of flailing, masturbatory nihilism.

If you're not familiar with Matt Taibbi you should be. Think a younger male Molly Ivins. Think a young Hunter Thompson before he lost his brain to drugs. Think a more political and zany Art Buchwald.

He's agreed to an interview via email for his new book. It will be a standard two-part interview – the first part will focus on his career and his book in general. The second part will be focused more on the book's contents.

He has made quite a name for himself. He covers politics for the Rolling Stone following in the footsteps of P.J. O'Rourke and Hunter Thompson (and he has some of the positive elements on both).

Here's a primer:
Taibbi on the Daily Show

Taiibi's new book excerpted via Alternet (here's the article and here's the discussion at Newsvine)

Real headline: Erica Jong Thinks I Want to Do My Mother: A Response

Taiibi doing a Washington Post chat

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