Secrets and mystery in ‘Best Friends’ Nov 16, 2009
The reunion of these women after a misunderstanding in high school is the story behind Jennifer Weiner s seventh novel, Best Friends Forever ... BOOK REVIEW BEST FRIENDS FOREVER By Jennifer Weiner. (Boston Globe)
The New York Times Aug 16, 2009
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner. 4. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
SHELF DISCOVERY Aug 16, 2009
Sprinkled in amongst Skurnick's essays are the occasional guest book report -- contributors include "Gossip Girl" author Cecily von Ziegesar, "In Her Shoes" author Jennifer Weiner, and mystery author Laura Lippman, as well as several of Skurnick's fellow Jezebel bloggers. Skurnick includes lots of choice quotations from the old favorites, lines that -- if you're like her -- you read so often you still know them by heart. (New York Post -- Opinions)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers Aug 02 / Aug 3, 2009
BEST FRIENDS FOREVER: A Novel, by Jennifer Weiner (Atria; 368 pages; $26 ... BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Friends' not very coherent Aug 2, 2009
Jennifer Weiner introduces us to the lonely, single Addie in her newest exploration of women, friendship, relationships and the random emotions of life in Best Friends Forever. Addie, who lives in her parents' house and takes care of her damaged brother, searches for love on the Internet. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Are you there, God? It's me, childhood Jul 28, 2009
"-- but also I gleaned something about religious confusion, since, as Skurnick reminded me, Margaret's 1970s parents have decided to let her choose her own faith, leaving her adrift in a town just like mine, where everyone went to Sunday school or Hebrew school. "Shelf Discovery" styles itself as a memoir through books, but revising youthful opinions is encouraged. "Good in Bed" author Jennifer Weiner is slightly horrified to discover that "Blubber" is not "the ne plus ultra of fat-girl lit" but... (Salon)
Obituaries in the news Jul 25, 2009
"Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Weiner (Atria). 2. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Best Friends Forever’ not Weiner’s best Jul 19, 2009
99), by Jennifer Weiner ... Jennifer Weiner introduces us to the lonely, single Addie in her newest exploration of women, friendship, relationships and the random emotions of life in Best Friends Forever. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
'Best Friends Forever' _ not Weiner's best book Jul 15, 2009
99), by Jennifer Weiner: Addie Downs and Valerie Adler became BFFs when they were both 9 ... Jennifer Weiner introduces us to the lonely, single Addie in her newest exploration of women, friendship, relationships and the random emotions of life in "Best Friends Forever.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
‘A Brave Vessel’ tells the story of obscure writer who inspired Shakespeare’s ‘Tempest’ Jul 12, 2009
Best Friends Forever, by Jennifer Weiner (Atria). The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich (Doubleday). (Boston Globe)
Lights! ... Camera! ... Tax credit! Jun 25, 2009
Jennifer Weiner, a policy analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, analyzed similar studies that Ernst did for New York and New Mexico and raised fundamental questions about the firm's methodology and results. She said the studies, among other flaws, didn't clearly spell out how they reached their conclusions and didn't account for the states' requirements to balance budgets. (News & Observer)
States lavish tax breaks on Hollywood Jun 4, 2009
"The credit does not 'pay for itself,'" Jennifer Weiner, a policy analyst for the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, wrote in a January report about Connecticut's incentives. "Increases in economic activity spurred by the film credit generate some additional tax revenue for the state from a variety of sources. This additional revenue is likely to offset some, but not all, of the initial cost of the credit.". (MSNBC -- Business)
'Looch' behaves himself in class May 20, 2009
As a fund-raiser for the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital, best-selling writer Alice Hoffman hosted an "An Evening With Your Favorite Authors" featuring such all-star scribes as Jennifer Weiner, Gregory Maguire, Sebastian Junger, Elizabeth Berg, Claire Messud, and Tom Perrotta. Former television reporter Joyce Kulhawik and WCVB-TV's Kelley Tuthill, both cancer survivors, also spoke. (Boston Globe)
The Center of attention May 18, 2009
Guest authors are Gregory Maguire (below), Jennifer Weiner, Sebastian Junger, Elizabeth Berg, Claire Messud, and Tom Perotta. Entertainment reporter and cancer survivor, Joyce Kulhawik will handle emcee duties, and WCVB-TV's Kelley Tuthill will discuss her challenges with the disease. (Boston Globe)
New in paper: Lahiri's 'Unaccustomed Earth' Apr 2, 2009
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner (Washington Square Press, $15, fiction, reprint). Best-selling author returns to the story of plus-sized Candace Shapiro, heroine of 2001's Good in Bed. (USA Today -- Life)
Author Elaine Showalter at Harvard Book Store Apr 1, 2009
She includes Emily Dickinson and Willa Cather in her 250 entries, to be sure, but also the likes of Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Jennifer Weiner. In her recent review in the Globe, critic Mary Loeffelholz wrote, "At the heart of 'A Jury of Her Peers' lies a robustly middlebrow pantheon of the realistic novel as written by American women, from Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in the middle of the 19th century, to Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Grace Metalious's 'Peyton Place,'... (Boston Globe)
