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Jennifer Weiner

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About Me

Certain Girls in stores, April 8! Pre-order now!

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Click here to read Chapter One (PDF)
To watch me read from The Guy Not Taken, click here .

My Interests

Reading, writing, world domination, fine dining, cooking, reality TV, biking, kayaking, Philadelphia, Cape Cod, and Noggin on demand.

I'd like to meet:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, readers of my books, parents of three-year-olds, Philadelphia fans, Cape Cod enthusiasts and rat terrier aficionados.

Music:

Warren Zevon, Dar Williams, Ani DiFranco, Emmylou Harris, Kathleen Edwards, Mark Knopfler, Beth Orton, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, John Hiatt, the Nields, Marah, Leo Kottke, Laurie Berkner.

Movies:

IN HER SHOES! And "Working Girl," "The Big Lebowski," "So I Married an Axe Murderer," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," and anything Adam Sandler is in (it's a sickness. I know).

Television:

"Project Runway," "The Amazing Race," "The Office," "Survivor," "America's Next Top Model," "House," "The Bachelor," "The Sopranos," "The Daily Show," and "Celebrity Fit Club."

Books:

Too many to list here! Right now I'm reading DIGGING TO AMERICA by Anne Tyler and EVERYTHING CHANGES by Jonathan Tropper. My favorite authors include Nora Ephron, Fran Lebowitz, John Irving, Peter Straub, Andrew Vachss, Stephen King, Tom Perotta, Kelly Link, Margaret Atwood, Sarah Dessen, Francine Prose, Meg Wolitzer, Marge Piercey, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Erica Jong, Caroline Leavitt, Jodi Picoult, Laura Lippman, Lionel Shriver, Michael Chabon, Calvin Trillin, Michael Cunningham, Gail Godwin, Elizabeth Strout, Carol Shields, Roald Dahl, Russell Banks, Donna Tartt, Suzanne Finnamore, all of my chick lit contemporaries – Jane Green, Johanna Edwards, Liza Palmer, Marian Keyes, Emily Giffen, Melissa Bank, Caren Lissner, Sarah Mlynowski, Lolly Winston and Helen Fielding.

Heroes:

Susan Isaacs...if you like my books, you'll like hers, too.

My Blog

Disaster

Generally, when things go wrong around the house, and my hardworking and handy husband isn't around, I have a simple way of dealing:Step one: ignore the situation, and hope that time will improve it.S...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:56:00 PST

Summer

Summer story I'm most interested in following: the war on public sex on Cape Cod beaches. The headline from the Provincetown Banner: No Buts About It: Seashore to Crack Down on Public Sex.Best quote f...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:22:00 PST

Four Letter Words

At my older daughter's preschool, they ask the kids a question of the day.Sometimes the questions are yes/no ("Do you like snow?), and sometimes they're more involved ("Do you have plans for the vacat...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:38:00 PST

Reading and Rolling

When you begin to think the advances of doled out to writers by major corporations possess anything but an accidental correlation to artistic worth, you are finished. Everything becomes publicity. How...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:02:00 PST

L.A. Story

So there I was in Los Angeles, on a balmy Tuesday night. It was about seven o'clock. We'd gone out for sushi, and were waiting, as you do in L.A., for the valet to bring our car, enjoying the balmy ev...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Sun, 04 May 2008 01:34:00 PST

on the radio

Attention Philadelphians: I'm going to be on The Michael Smerconish Show Thursday morning around 8am. If you're not in the area, it looks like there's a link on the website to listen live....
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:21:00 PST

CBS Early Show

In case you missed it, click here to see me on the CBS Early Show today.  (link fixed!)In addition, as promised, here is the podcast of my recent event at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Salty!...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:50:00 PST

Television

The Free Library event on Sunday was so much fun...and, if you missed it, or if you don't live in Philadelphia, the library has promised that they'll put it up as a podcast. With an "explicit" label. ...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:09:00 PST

On the road again

You ask, you get! I’ve added a reading at the Santa Monica Barnes & Noble on Thursday, May 1. Details to come, but I hope to see lots of you Left Coasters there.I’ve had two wonderful ...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:27:00 PST

One Day More

7 p.m., Thursday: My assistant Meghan, sister Molly and I load our luggage, car snacks, baby gear and baby Phoebe into a very large, publisher-provided SUV for the trip to Manhattan.9 a.m., Friday: Ha...
Posted by Jennifer Weiner on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:20:00 PST