Interview: Author Jennifer Weiner On 'Mrs. Everything' & Plus-Size Representation In Books

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🗓️ 21 January 2020

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NPR Code Switch correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates steps in for Sam. She is joined by best-selling author Jennifer Weiner, who has written popular books like Good In Bed, In Her Shoes, and Little Earthquakes over the past two decades. Weiner talks about her latest novel, Mrs. Everything, the importance of having plus-size characters in books and speaking out against sexism.

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0:00.0	Hey, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:09.0	I'm Karen Griggsby-Bates in For Sam Sanders.
0:12.3	My guest on the show today is bestselling author Jennifer Weiner.
0:16.2	She's the mine behind some of the biggest books of the last two decades.
0:20.2	Good in bed, little earthquakes in her shoes.
0:23.9	That book and her shoes even got turned into a major feature film in 2005 starring Cameron
0:29.2	Diaz, Tony Collette, and Shirley McLean.
0:32.0	Is this Ella Hirsch?
0:33.2	Yes, it is.
0:34.2	Did you have a daughter named Caroline?
0:36.7	This is my granddaughter Maggie Feller.
0:38.8	Hello.
0:40.1	Turns out I have a grandmother I never knew about.
0:42.3	Our mother was dad.
0:43.3	The grandmother might have come in handy.
0:44.9	Jennifer gives us the delicious backstory to getting her work adapted for the big screen.
0:50.0	She also talks about her latest book, Mrs. Everything, and how her writing has shown her books
0:54.7	aren't just for women, even if they've been called Chick-Lit in the past.
0:59.8	You should know that I talked to Jennifer back when Meg's it first broke.
1:03.4	I really needed to get her take on that, so here we go.
1:07.5	Karen?
1:08.5	Yes.
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