Jennifer Weiner on Body Diversity in Books

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Skincare, Beauty, Society & Culture, Comedy, Advice, Books, Arts, Careers

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We’re taking body diversity in books with Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen books, including That Summer, Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, Good in Bed, and an essay collection, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing.

Jennifer talks about her journey to becoming a best-selling author, what motivated her to feature women with different body types in her books, and the process of getting a visibly plus-size woman on book covers. We also ask Jennifer about how she decides what to write about, her newest book The Summer Place, and writing a book set in the time of COVID.

Jennifer also shares her favorite Philly bookstores and her favorite recent reads.

You can find Jennifer at @jenniferweinerwrites on Instagram, @jenweinerwrites on Tik Tok, Jennifer Weiner on Facebook, jenniferweiner.com, and get a signed copy of her books at Head House Books in Philadelphia

Books Jennifer loves right now:

When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

Obsessions

Becca: Anthropologie bracelet stack: Colorful Chicklet Bracelet, Pearly Heart Bracelet, and Colorful Tennis Bracelet

Olivia: The Ghost Ship That Didn’t Carry Us by Cheryl Strayed, Dear Sugar Column

Some bonus things we talked about this week include Olivia’s Mango Cucumber salad by What’s Gaby Cooking and a Smashed Pickle Salad recipe from NYT cooking we both want to make ASAP.

What we read this week!

Becca: Killers of A Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (out Sept 6!) The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner

Olivia: The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner, The Measure by Nikki Erlick

This Month’s Book Club Pick: You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper Podcast.
0:20.0	I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:22.4	And we're so excited because we have Jen Weiner with us today who is talking all about
0:26.4	her illustrious career as an author and her many bestselling books, including the recently
0:33.1	released New York Times bestseller The Summer Place.
0:35.8	But we're also talking about body diversity in Vtrees and we had such an interesting
0:40.0	conversation and I can't wait to share it with you.
0:42.0	I love this one and as a plus size person existing in the world as a writer, she has inspired
0:47.5	me so much so I, yeah, I loved it.
0:50.8	But before we get into that, let's do some highs and lows.
0:53.6	Yes.
0:54.6	I want to hear about lobster.
0:56.6	Tell me all about your lobster life.
1:00.0	I am on week one of two in Maine.
1:04.4	It is part of vacation, part not.
1:07.5	So I was in a gunkwit for five days with my aunt kind of on vacation and my aunt lives
1:15.4	in Arizona.
1:16.4	We're originally from Connecticut and so she was just on a mission to eat as much lobster
1:21.5	as possible.
1:22.5	So I truly ate.
1:23.5	Hey, lobster.
1:24.5	What's the tally?
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