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100 Years of Writer’s Digest

In May, Jennifer Weiner’s newest novel, Big Summer, will be released. Here we revisit her February 2006 WD interview where she was celebrating the release of Goodnight Nobody and preparing for the film adaptation of In Her Shoes.

You were a feature writer and columnist before you were writing novels. How did your journalistic training prepare you for

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