Molly Lambert

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Molly Lambert
Born
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • critic
  • podcaster
Known for Night Call , HeidiWorld

Molly Lambert is an American journalist, podcaster and social activist. She was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the San Fernando Valley. [1]

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Career

From 2010 to 2012, Lambert wrote music reviews for Pitchfork. [2] In 2014, she co-hosted the ESPN Grantland production Girls in Hoodies in which she discussed pop culture with Emily Yoshida and Tess Lynch. [3] Lambert also co-hosted the MTV Entertainment Group podcast North Mollywood with journalist Alex Pappademas in 2017. [4]

In 2016, she wrote an article for The New York Times about glass bricks - a subject she has discussed extensively, including on the podcast Why Do You Know That?. [5]

Lambert reunited with Yoshida and Lynch in 2018 to host the iHeartRadio call-in show Night Call , which ran until 2020. Since February 2020 she has also hosted Deckheads with Anna Hossnieh, a former podcast and now Twitch stream centred on the reality show Below Deck and other Bravo programming. [6] [7] Lambert also wrote the foreword for I Used to Be Charming, a 2019 collection of the work of Eve Babitz. It was later published independently in The Paris Review . [8]

In 2022, she wrote, produced and hosted HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story, a limited series podcast about the life of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. [9] The show featured an extensive voice cast playing various characters from Fleiss' life, including Rian Johnson, Karina Longworth, Paul F. Tompkins and Karen Tongson. [10]

At the end of 2023, Lambert announced on her Instagram that she is currently working on JennaWorld, a podcast about "the history of pornography and the San Fernando Valley and the last quarter century in media" centered on the life of Jenna Jameson, to be released in 2024.

Activism

Lambert is a member of the Los Angeles branch of the Democratic Socialists of America. [11] She is also one of the founders of NOlympics LA, a movement which opposes the Olympic Games and seeks to cancel the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. [12] [13] She views the Olympics as "a scheme routinely carried out by a consortium of grotesquely wealthy oligarchs and war criminals (like Henry Kissinger), who use sports as a pretext to extract capital from poor communities around the world." [14]

Personal life

Lambert is the sister of music industry executive and manager for Freddie Gibbs, Ben "Lambo" Lambert, [15] [16] the daughter and niece respectively of Grateful Dead associates Glenn and Gary Lambert [17] [18] and the granddaughter of German Jewish track and field athlete Gretel Bergmann. [19]

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References

  1. ↑ "Molly Lambert Goes Feral for Smoked Salmon". A Table for Two. April 15, 2022. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Staff: Molly Lambert". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  3. ↑ Romanoff, Zak (September 12, 2023). "How They Made It: Molly Lambert's solo production of the chart-topping Heidi World". Descript. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  4. ↑ "North Mollywood". Panoply. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  5. ↑ Lambert, Molly (September 11, 2016). "Letter of Recommendation: Glass Bricks". The New York Times. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  6. ↑ Lambert, Molly. "Deckheads". Twitch. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  7. ↑ A Table for Two, 2022.
  8. ↑ Lambert, Molly (October 7, 2019). "The Perseverance of Eve Babitz's Vision". The Paris Review. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  9. ↑ Krueger, Katherine (April 11, 2022). "'Heidi World' Is the Deliciously Addictive Story of an All-American Hustler". Elle. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  10. ↑ Lambert, Molly. "Heidi World Full Cast Reveal". Patreon. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  11. ↑ "An Olympic-Size Swindle in LA with Molly Lambert and Jules Boykoff". The Dig. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  12. ↑ Lambert, Molly (August 8, 2019). "The Fight Against The Los Angeles Olympics Isn't Over Yet". Deadspin. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  13. ↑ Hitt, Tarpley (November 13, 2019). "Behind Los Angeles' Bitter War to Abolish the Olympics for Good". Obsessed. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  14. ↑ Lambert, 2019.
  15. ↑ Caraan, Sophie (October 10, 2022). "Ben "Lambo" Lambert Believes That Self-Care Is Vital in Becoming a Music Executive". Hypebeast. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  16. ↑ Lambert, Molly. "Tweet from 2018". Twitter. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  17. ↑ Lambert, Molly. "Tweet from 2018". Twitter. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  18. ↑ "THE DEAD IN ALL THEIR GLORY: 'GRATEFUL DEAD: THE CLOSING OF WINTERLAND'". PopMatters. September 12, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  19. ↑ Lambert, Molly (October 1, 2017). "My Grandmother, the Nazis, and the Shadow of the Olympics". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
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