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Jennie Yabroff is a freelance journalist and Daily Beast Contributor living in New York. She is a former staff writer for Newsweek magazine. She has also written for the New York Times, Salon, the New York Observer, the Paris Review Daily, and Biographile.com.

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When Mom’s A Drama Queen

Beast Book Club

Anne Enright’s sparkling novel proves true the old Tolstoy maxim about families.

Jennie Yabroff | Published Jan 01, 2016

Maybe Judy Blume Should Stick to Teens

Then Again

She once defied every taboo of YA fiction. Why is her latest book for adult readers so tame?

Jennie Yabroff | Published Aug 30, 2015

A Thorny, Horny Pain in the Ass

Unforgettable

In her debut novel, filmmaker/artist/author Miranda July creates the indelible Cheryl Glickman, the anti-romantic likes of whom we rarely see in fiction.

Jennie Yabroff | Published Jan 21, 2015

The Story Behind ‘Purple Rain’

SEX APPEAL

From somebody suffering hypothermia on the set to Prince’s taskmaster methods, some of the more interesting bits from a new history of the movie, soundtrack, and single.

Jennie Yabroff | Published Jan 01, 2015

What Would Jane Eyre Sext?

LOL

A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.

Jennie Yabroff | Published Dec 23, 2014

Colm Toibin Crafts a Quiet Masterpiece

The Irish author talks about circling the story in his latest novel for years, if not all his life, since some is true and some is fiction. Just don’t expect him to say which is which.

Jennie Yabroff | Published Nov 03, 2014

Amy Poehler Preaches ‘Lean Out’

Counterintuitive

Think of Poehler as the ‘anti-Sheryl Sandberg’—a high-profile female whose witty, breezy new memoir argues that obsessing over your career may not be the path to happiness.

Jennie Yabroff | Published Oct 29, 2014

Hilary Mantel Visits the Twilight Zone

Macabre

The ‘Wolf Hall’ author’s new story collection features ghosts, vampires, monsters, alternative universes, and other precincts familiar to the fans of Poe and Rod Serling.

Jennie Yabroff | Published Oct 14, 2014

Precious’ Son Returns

In her sequel to 'Push,' Sapphire recounts the next generation of abuse.

Jennie Yabroff | Published Jul 08, 2011

A Writer of Many Disguises

Novelist Chris Adrian talks about his new Shakespearean novel, The Great Night, how being a doctor inspires his work, and why he’d rather be writing about “zombie bunnies."

Jennie Yabroff | Published May 25, 2011

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