Ana Marie Cox, aka Wonkette, is writing a book. I don't know if she has it in her. But then, Fox's Chris Wallace didn't have it in him either and he wrote a book. ("It was a kind of collaborative effort. My -- a fellow, an agent, Bill Adler (ph), came up -- called me up and said, Have you ever thought of writing a book? And I said, yes, but I never have had an idea." I'll say.) I digress.
I couldn't write a book. Writing a blog and writing a book are very different talents. Tom Wolfe is an accomplished writer, but that doesn't guarantee he would write an interesting blog. And Cox is great as Wonkette, a foulmouthed, hard-drinking, sex-obsessed politics junkie. But... I've seen Cox on cable and C-SPAN panels and read interviews and, well, she's not always the most articulate. And while Andrew Sullivan is gone for "say, nine months" to write his book, Cox is taking just one.
Don't get me wrong, I like Wonkette, love her politics, and am grateful that her guest blogger caught me in a dumb mistake just a week after I started blogging. That sent my traffic through the roof and earned me a Google ranking I had been trying to achieve for months. Not to mention great cocktail chatter.
I bet the book will sell; I'm not so sure I'll be buying.
