Book Review: The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

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The Devil Wears Prada has become iconic. Anne Hathaway’s cerulean sweater. Meryl Streep’s silver hair and clipped “that’s all” dismissal. The pop songs, the score, the fashion world excess. Just hearing the title instantly conjures images from the film for millions of people. And while it’s common knowledge that Streep’s Miranda Priestly was inspired by Vogue editor Anna Wintour, fewer people realize the story began as a novel: a lightly fictionalized account written by Wintour’s former assistant, Lauren Weisberger. Now, with a movie sequel hitting theaters, Arnie looks back at Weisberger’s original 2003 novel and its follow-ups, Revenge Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons. Join him as he dives into the world of chick lit and reveals just how dramatic a makeover the original book received on its way to becoming a Hollywood phenomenon.

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0:00.0	Hello now, playing listeners.
0:08.3	This is Arnie.
0:09.5	Back with another book review.
0:12.7	Last Sunday, Brock Marjorie and I dropped a bonus review of the 2006 movie
0:19.2	The Devil Wears Prada, timing it for the release of The Devil
0:23.3	Wares Prada 2, which just hit huge at the box office last weekend, unbelievable global
0:29.5	numbers. Literally, I can't believe it. And the review of the Devil Wears Prada 2 movie
0:34.9	will be out this Sunday. But looking back at these movies, I thought I'd also
0:40.7	go back to the original source material for these movies and its two sequels.
0:45.8	The original Devil Wares Prada book is the first novel from author Lauren Weisberger.
0:53.0	It was published in 2003. She's now published seven novels,
0:57.5	three of which are in the Devil Wears Prada series. I will be reviewing both of those sequel
1:03.6	books, but neither of the sequel books were taken into account with the Devil Wears Prada 2
1:09.6	movie. Because there are a lot of differences between the movie from 2006 and Wiseberger's book
1:16.1	from 2003.
1:17.8	And while Wiseberger is the source of all of these stories, and we're going to get into a little
1:23.3	bit about her story, the Devil Wears Prada movie was a heavy rewrite of this book. They rearranged
1:31.2	things so that there's escalating drama in the movie and added a completely different ending.
1:36.7	And then when the Devil Wears Prada musical came out a couple years ago, it is 100% based
1:43.0	beat by beat off of the movie The Devil Wears Prada,
1:47.0	not taking into account any of the information from the novel The Devil Wears Prada.
1:52.3	And Weisberger did talk about being on the sets of both films. She does have a non-speaking
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