this is art:
❝ His second book, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, is out this week and simply cannot be read for enjoyment. It’s like Hillbilly Elegy but for middle-class alcoholics in the Bay Area with close ties to petroleum magnates. It is an exhausting hagiography of yet another man who had an affair while in office. It is not so much a book as it is several hundred pages to endure.

Democrats' frontrunner for 2028 has a new memoir. I read it. We're doomed. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/gavin-newsom-book-democratic-presidential-race-biden-trump.html

The Great Hope of the Democratic Party Just Released a New Memoir. We’re Doomed.

If nothing else, the book is good for a game of politician-memoir bingo.

Slate
@blogdiva This is just one example of the service book reviewers do for the rest of us. Because no one way in hell would I touch this.

@blogdiva

"Newsom is so unsympathetic in his own book that you could leave with a renewed sense of pity for Kimberly Guilfoyle..." 

@blogdiva Ok, where was this kind of critique when Trump was running? I mean, better late than never but ...
@blogdiva My new favorite insult is “Those are undeniably words.” :D
@schrotthaufen i wouldn’t be shocked if he got a little help from a certain plagiarism as a service. if there is a Dog, he did and people will find all the plagiarized parts in no time.
@blogdiva If only plagiarism would end a political career as it did before the whole timeline decided to go bonkers.
@blogdiva
When was he crowned the frontrunner?
@venitamathias @blogdiva He has plenty of time to crash and burn in a spectacular way. 🍿

@venitamathias It was a private ceremony. Very hush-hush: No hoi polloi, and all that.

Let you bank account do the talking.

#quietLuxury

@wtrmt See. Tricks are for kids.
@venitamathias I feel young again thanks to you. I don’t understand this either.
@venitamathias @blogdiva picture before the event (that I can’t unsee)
@blogdiva Wow there were so many typos and spelling errors in that article that ... well I guess at least we know that an AI didn't extrude it.
@blogdiva my god, the picture of him... insults about one's god-given appearance are a place i refrain from going, but his face is not any person's god-given face. he does not resemble a human so much as a Pixar villain