arc and the newer, bitchier nanny-Prada chick-lit motif." Writing in Slate.com, Toby Young found the novel "shallow." He continued, The problem is, once the plot is set in motion, it never really takes flight. Dog Days has the makings of an entertaining comic novel, but Cox hasn't bothered to master the rudiments of the genre. I kept waiting for the different elements to come to a boil, but if anything, Cox turns down the heat as the story continues. Kirkus Reviews adjudged that Cox offers "results that make Primary Colors read like Proust" and concluded, "[R]eaders hoping for some real-life dirt (or at least a salacious facsimile) will be dealt nothing more than lightweight fluff and throwaway farce." In the Los Angeles Times, Diana Wagman wrote, "Dog Days is predictable and, worst of all, mean-spirited. ... [It] is chick lit at its most hackneyed." "It's a novel torn from the day before yesterday's headlines," wrote P.J. O'Rourke in The Washington Post. I won't spoil the plot. There isn't one. ... Dog Days is devoid of ideas or even references to ideas ... The people in Dog Days spend so much energy on instant-messaging, text-messaging, message-forwarding and such that it's no wonder they are too exhausted to have anything to say. According to Human Events, more than a year after its publication the book had sold "a dismal 5,000 copies." On July 27, 2006, Cox was named the Washington editor of Time.com, where she also wrote The Ana Log. On April 12, 2007, Cox claimed on Time magazine's website that she agreed to appear on the Don Imus radio show despite its history of racially and sexually charged content because she wanted to be considered part of the media elite. Cox wrote: "I'm embarrassed to admit that it took Imus' saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge." Cox announced on December 5, 2008, that she would no longer be contributing to Time magazine's Swampland blog. On January 19, 2009, Cox debuted on Air America Media as their first Washington-based national correspondent. She was a frequent guest on The Rachel Maddow Show, and guest-hosted the show in Maddow's absence on September 4, 2009. In 2009, Cox also became a contributing editor for Playboy. The February 17, 2010