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Totally Booked with Zibby

Jennifer Weiner, MRS. EVERYTHING

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Weiner is the best-selling author of dozens of books including her latest novel, MRS. EVERYTHING. This book, about two sisters from the 1950s to present day, is a family saga, a drama, one that made me gasp at times, relate at other times, and stay engaged throughout. Women’s rights. Lesbianism. Civil rights. Eating disorders. Sexual assault. Drugs. This is her magnum opus. Jen and I did an Instagram LIVE of our conversation. It was beyond exciting to be interviewing her!! 

 


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the Webby-nominated podcast, Moms don't have time to read books.

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0:40.3

I am so excited to be interviewing Jennifer Weiner today. Jennifer is the number one New York Times

0:44.9

bestselling author. Her books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller

0:49.4

list with 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. Jennifer wrote Good in Bed, in her shoes,

0:55.7

which became a movie with Cameron Diaz, Tony Colette, and Shirley MacLean, The Next Best

0:59.9

Thing, Little Earthquaked, and many more. Her latest novel, which comes out in June,

1:03.3

is called Mrs. Everything. Jennifer has also written to middle grade novels, The Littlest Bigfoot,

1:08.0

and Little Bigfoot Big City, and a nonfiction collection of essays hungry

1:11.8

heart adventures in life love and writing she has appeared in the today show good morning america

1:16.5

including this morning and many other news outlets a graduate of princeton university she is a

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contributing opinion writer for the new york times op ed and sunday review sections she currently

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lives in philadelphia with her family i'm here with j Jennifer Weiner, but I'm going to let her have the whole screen, and I'm going to interview her. I'm at Jennifer Weiner writes. If you're watching this, then you have no idea who I am. I write novels. Hi. She's the number one best-selling New York Times bestselling author and has a new book,

1:44.8

Mrs. Everything.

1:40.4

Cleavage. Which is coming out. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Pre-order. Go get it. Yes, please. Go to Amazon. Go to Target. Go to Costco. Go to your local independent. Go to Barnes & Noble. It's the Barnes & Noble book of the month. Yay.

1:41.3

Hi, people.

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I see people coming.

2:18.3

Ariel, will you like tag and let people know and stuff? Yes. Oh, and a hardcover. Yes, there it is. Right. Here's this is the finished book backwards. But not really. Excellent. So here we are. Okay, here we are. In your stunning, gorgeous apartment. This is the most beautiful place I've ever been in, and I might not really. Excellent. So here we are. And your stunning, gorgeous apartment.

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This is the most beautiful place I've ever been in, and I might not leave. Don't leave. I might just live here. It would be great. Just move on in. Come on. Yeah. Why not? All right. So your new novel, Mrs. Everything. Yes. Can you tell us what it's about and what inspired you to write it? Misses Everything is the story of two sisters, two Jewish-American sisters, from the 1940s, all the way through the present and slightly beyond, into a lightly fictionalized future where there's a woman president to be.

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