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Oct 26, 2023 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Julia Gessler |Dan Ahwa |Emma Gleason |Jenny Jackson
We discuss sensationalism, the malleability of truth, and how her fiction — set in the 19th century — feels surprisingly current. Zadie Smith’s The Fraud is a historical novel, her first. It’s a book about London, about history, about classism and authorship and truth.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
valleybreeze.com | Alan Rosenberg |Jenny Jackson |Stephen Amidon |Rebecca Makkai
Here are our latest audio book reviews for your summertime pleasure:“Pineapple Street”By Jenny Jackson, read by Marin Ireland. Penguin Audio, 8½ hours, $22.50. Can a middle-class Rhode Island woman find happiness with the son of a super-rich New York banking family? That’s the question posed by this debut novel by Jackson, executive editor at the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house.
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Jul 29, 2023 | 
chicagotribune.com | John Warner |Eleanor Catton |Jenny Jackson |Ann Napolitano
It is very hard to write a great second novel. Often, a first novel is the product of many years of work, a buildup of everything an individual artist has inside of them that bursts forth in a glorious debut. Lydia Kiesling’s first novel, “The Golden State” was a fantastic debut. It’s a close-focus story of the life of a young mother trying to single-parent a toddler as her Turkish husband is stuck outside of the United States because of visa problems.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
stltoday.com | Norma Klingsick |Jenny Jackson |Taylor Jenkins Reid |Celeste Ng
Rich people with first-world problems, a band’s wild ride to fame in the 1970s, and a young opportunist who takes one ill-advised action after another provided captivating entertainment in three novels perfect for summer. In another novel I read for a book club in June, issues close to the author’s heart were evident in a chilling portrayal of the United States.
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Jun 17, 2023 | 
independent.ie | Jenny Jackson
I had lived in New York for 20 years without feeling the need to read Truman Capote’s famous novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Hadn’t I absorbed the gist via cultural osmosis? By way of the ubiquitous movie poster featuring Audrey Hepburn, I felt I had a handle on Capote’s heroine Holly Golightly, and I wasn’t sure I liked her.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
msn.com | Jenny Jackson
I had lived in New York for 20 years without feeling the need to read Truman Capote’s famous novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Hadn’t I absorbed the gist via cultural osmosis? By way of the ubiquitous movie poster featuring Audrey Hepburn, I felt I had a handle on Capote’s heroine Holly Golightly, and I wasn’t sure I liked her.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
hebban.nl | Jenny Jackson
In Pineapple Street van Jenny Jackson genieten de steenrijke Stocktons al generaties van alle privileges van kapitalistisch succes. Nu dreigt een schisma in de familie als hun drie dochters, die al dat geld gaan erven, worstelen met wat de waarde van geld werkelijk is.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
mimimontgomery.substack.com | Curtis Sittenfeld |Jenny Jackson |Rachel Hawkins |Rachel Yoder
TGIF, my people, and welcome to your weekly installment of Fully Booked! Today, I’m going to give a little round-up of things I’ve read and enjoyed recently. The plan is to do this on a monthly basis, as well as highlight some books I’m looking forward to reading. This marks the fourth week that this newsletter has been alive. That’s, like, basically the lifespan of a cicada. (Maybe? Idk, don’t fact check me on that. I got a B in Bio.) So we’re really doing the damn thing.
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Apr 23, 2023 | 
inkl.com | Jenny Jackson
Jackson wrote the novel during the pandemic; unable to see her authors in person, she had nowhere to put her “sparkly energy”. That energy is tangible today, as she bounces into the Penguin offices in a bright green mac, wearing a pair of silver clogs so fabulous that they warrant serious pre- and post-interview discussion. Jackson has that unself-conscious American confidence. She talks in flowing paragraphs, punctuated by jokes and funny voices.
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Apr 12, 2023 | 
netgalley.com | Jenny Jackson
Review by Verity W, Reviewer Last updated on 12 Apr 2023 I love a good Rich People Problems book and this is exactly that. I read this in 24 hours - and if I hadn’t had to work it would have been less! This would make perfect sun lounger reading - it’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you roll your eyes and by the end you’ll have a lot more sympathy than you were expecting for Georgiana and Darley (you’re rooting for Sasha from the start).
