Jenny Jackson

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

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5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jenny Jackson: tequila soda (2 1/2 ounces Casamigos blanco, club soda, lime) The highly regarded executive editor and now debut author of the stunning novel PINEAPPLE STREET discusses her thoughts on the changing generational views of wealth and inheritance, her technique in switching POVs in her novel, what it was like returning to the office at Penguin Random after maternity leave, her top literary influences, how she won the bid for CRAZY RICH ASIANS, what it's like editing top authors like Emily St. John Mandel, Chris Bohjalian and Kevin Kwan, and hangover strategies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt. You have just gained access to an exclusive
0:06.4	insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear
0:10.9	conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing
0:14.9	lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind-the-scenes revelations.
0:25.7	Welcome to Dedicated. i'm your host duck brunt today we're with jenny jackson she is the talk of the town with her debut novel pineapple street
0:29.9	which one review describes as riveting timely hugely entertaining and brimming with truth the book
0:36.0	is getting rave reviews everywhere.
0:38.2	And though this is her debut novel, she's not new to publishing. She, for years, has been a
0:42.2	highly respected editor and bringing you many of the books you love. Among her authors are
0:46.2	Emily St. John Mendel, the author of Station 11 in the Glass Hotel. Chris Bojelian,
0:51.6	formerly on this show just a couple months ago, and the author of The Flight
0:55.6	Attendant and Lioness and many others, and Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians.
1:01.1	We're thrilled to have Jenny with us today. Jenny, welcome.
1:03.7	Thank you. Thank you for having me.
1:05.7	Well, as we get settled in here, of course, we'll get our drinks poured, and I love your choice
1:09.9	today. Tequila soda. Yes, drinks poured. And I love your choice today.
1:11.6	Tequila soda.
1:13.1	Yes, a classic.
1:18.6	So I thought I was being fancy by specifying my Casamigos and soda.
1:24.7	But my friends all make fun of me because I really will drink tequila with almost anything.
1:27.6	And so I have a really good friend who's like an amazing mixologist,
1:31.6	and he comes over and he makes, you know, simple syrup from scratch,
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