Jennie Yabroff

Jennie Yabroff is a freelance journalist and Daily Beast Contributor living in New York. She is a former staff writer for Newsweek magazine. She has also written for the New York Times, Salon, the New York Observer, the Paris Review Daily, and Biographile.com.

Beast Book Club

When Mom’s A Drama Queen

Anne Enright’s sparkling novel proves true the old Tolstoy maxim about families.

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Then Again

Maybe Judy Blume Should Stick to Teens

She once defied every taboo of YA fiction. Why is her latest book for adult readers so tame?

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Unforgettable

A Thorny, Horny Pain in the Ass

In her debut novel, filmmaker/artist/author Miranda July creates the indelible Cheryl Glickman, the anti-romantic likes of whom we rarely see in fiction.

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SEX APPEAL

The Story Behind ‘Purple Rain’

From somebody suffering hypothermia on the set to Prince’s taskmaster methods, some of the more interesting bits from a new history of the movie, soundtrack, and single.

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