Jennifer Nix recently launched LiteraryOutpost. A former National Public Radio producer (On the Media) and staff writer for Variety, Jennifer has also written for New York, The New York Observer, The Nation, Village Voice, National Law Journal, Salon, AlterNet, FireDogLake, DailyKos and other media outlets and blogs. As editor-at-large for Chelsea Green Publishing, she acquired George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant and pioneered a Web-based marketing model that had Lakoff's work on the New York Times' and other bestseller lists for months. In 2006, she acquired and published Glenn Greenwald's How Would a Patriot Act? with Working Assets Publishing. The book received unprecedented coverage on the top progressive blogs, rocketing it–in one day– from obscurity to the No. 1 spot on Amazon, and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Jennifer is currently a fellow at the New Politics Institute in San Francisco.

Blog Entries by Jennifer Nix

Unconventional Wisdom on Dubai

2 Comments | Posted September 16, 2009 | 12:23 PM (EST)


Most progressives view the Dubai Ports World uproar as one of the only times the Bush Administration bent to the will of the people, backing down from allowing the Emirate-owned business to take over management of several major ports along the U.S. eastern seaboard.

A new book,

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Open Letter to MSNBC President Phil Griffin

Posted March 2, 2009 | 11:19 AM (EST)


I like what I'm reading about what you intend to do with the 10 p.m. slot on MSNBC. Your network is sitting on top of a tremendous opportunity. This is a seminal moment, one that can lead us -- professional and citizen media -- into new journalism and media...

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A Tale of Two Obama Books: Why Do Progressives Still Not Get It?

Posted August 20, 2008 | 12:25 PM (EST)


As Mr. Dickens might say: It was the best of books, it was the worst of books. And the rest of it fits, too: It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was...

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Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul

Posted July 29, 2008 | 06:20 AM (EST)


I was living in Torino, Italy, when Bush's war on Iraq broke out, trying rather desperately to finish a collection of short stories I'd started years before. Each day, though, as the U.S. moved closer to attacking a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11, I realized that my...

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History Lesson for Robert Torricelli...and Hillary Clinton

Posted March 18, 2008 | 03:39 AM (EST)


Dear Robert Torricelli:

I read your March 13 column on PolitickerNJ, the "virtual watercooler for [New Jersey's] political elite," about how everyone (who's anyone, I surmise) recognizes the need for superdelegates.

My reaction to your column, Torch, is that you are the avatar of all that is wrong with...

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The Campaign of Magical Thinking

Posted March 3, 2008 | 05:06 AM (EST)


When a top Hillary Clinton advisor predicted on February 16 that his candidate would "lock down" the Democratic nomination, called the number of elections and delegates won by Barack Obama "irrelevant," and later characterized the race as "wide open," it occurred to me that in the homestretch to March...

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Open Letter to Geraldine Ferraro and So-Called Party Leaders

Posted February 26, 2008 | 12:20 PM (EST)


Read more HuffPost coverage and reaction to Geraldine Ferraro's comments


Dear Ms. Ferraro:

I learned from your Op-Ed in the New York Times yesterday about your role in setting up the superdelegate system, and that you believe superdelegates should lead, and not follow the will...

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Putting an End to this Superdelegate Silliness

Posted February 21, 2008 | 03:42 PM (EST)


With Barack Obama's ten-state winning streak, and growing pledged delegate lead over Hillary Clinton, we are likely seeing the last gasp of the Clinton campaign in the run-up to the Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4th.

If Senator Clinton doesn't win big in Texas and Ohio, the only real...

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Not This Time, Mr. Krugman

Posted February 12, 2008 | 08:59 PM (EST)


Dear Paul Krugman:

You had to know what effect your pot-stirring yesterday would have on the painful Democratic debate going on between Clinton and Obama supporters, over which candidate should be our nominee.

Shame on you for singling out one side's support as nothing more than a cult following....

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Crunchy Cons, Obama and Election 2008

Posted February 10, 2008 | 06:26 PM (EST)


While eating my yogurt and granola on Saturday morning, I had an epiphany. Mike Huckabee was on CNN, addressing a student rally at the University of Maryland. I can assure you, however, that my new understanding is not attributed to anything Huckabee said.

My lightbulb moment came when a student...

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A Little Sunlight Please: The Super-Delegate Transparency Project

Posted February 7, 2008 | 10:24 PM (EST)


Between the battle over whether citizens of Michigan and Florida will see their delegates seated at the convention, and the uproar over what effect the super-delegates may have in this mother-of-all-races for the Democratic nomination, rank-and-file Democrats have plenty to be anxious about this primary season.

One of these problems...

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