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Momzillas
Jill Kopelman Kargman ’92 Broadway Books, 2007 Uban dictionary defines the term as someone “whose good mothering traits, such as concern for others and knowing better, get blown to massive, Japanese-lizard proportions, thus rendering them annoying and complicated people with whom you don’t want to spend a second longer than you must. Combination of mom+Godzilla.” The new solo novel Momzillas by Jill Kopelman Kargman ’92 is a dark comedy about “a scary sect of Type A competitive yummy mummies on New York’s Upper East Side.” Publishers Weekly says Momzillas “offers a breezy jaunt through the Manhattan nursery grinder…. Kargman writes with verve. Fans of the genre won’t be disappointed.” Kargman has, with Carrie Doyle Karasyov ’90, authored novels Wolves in Chic Clothing, The Right Address, and Bittersweet Sixteen, as well as the screenplay for Intern. She and Karasyov are working on another teen book, Summer Intern, due out in July. “So are the characters based on real people?” people often ask her. “Hand to Gawd: NO” says Kargman. “They truly, 100 percent, are completely invented, or they’re composites of a million peeps. No one
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person, school, club, apartment, etc., is based on anything, SWEAR…. I was, however, dumped while the guy was throwing a lacrosse ball at the wall and I just had to put that scene in Momzillas, cause you can’t write that shizzle. But take my word for it: it’s fiction.” Check it out at www.momzillas.com
Author Jill Kopelman Kargman ’92 is the mother of two.
Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb ’66 Publicaffairs, 2007 This acidly funny account of the battle over an Cape Wind is a rollicking tale of democracy offshore wind farm is both a fascinating win- in action and plutocracy in the raw as played out dow on the business and politics of energy and a among colorful and glamorous characters on one of scathing portrait of the ruling class. our country’s most historic and renowned pieces of When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind coastline. As steeped in American history and local farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some color as The Prince of Providence; as biting, revealing people might object. But there was a lot of merit and fun as Philistines at the Hedgerow, it is also a in creating a privately funded, clean energy source cautionary tale about how money can hijack defor energy-starved New England, and he felt sure mocracy while America lags behind the rest of the most people would recognize it eventually. Instead, developed world in adopting clean energy. all hell broke loose. Gordon had unwittingly chal- Robert Whitcomb is a vice president and lenged the privileges of some of America’s richest editorial-page editor of the Providence Journal. and most politically connected people, and they Before that he served as the financial editor of would fight him tooth and nail, no matter what it the International Herald Tribune; and as editor cost, and even when it made no sense. and writer for the Wall Street Journal. Taft Bulletin Spring 2007