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

Maybe Judy Blume Should Stick to Teens
Then AgainShe once defied every taboo of YA fiction. Why is her latest book for adult readers so tame?

A Thorny, Horny Pain in the Ass
UnforgettableIn her debut novel, filmmaker/artist/author Miranda July creates the indelible Cheryl Glickman, the anti-romantic likes of whom we rarely see in fiction.

The Story Behind ‘Purple Rain’
SEX APPEALFrom 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.

What Would Jane Eyre Sext?
LOLA new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.

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.

Amy Poehler Preaches ‘Lean Out’
CounterintuitiveThink 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.

Hilary Mantel Visits the Twilight Zone
MacabreThe ‘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.

Precious’ Son Returns
In her sequel to 'Push,' Sapphire recounts the next generation of abuse.

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."
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