Jennifer Weiner is most recently the author of Certain Girls. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Avoiding literary desegregation. Author: Jennifer Weiner Subjects Discussed: [list forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: There are also these larger thematics, I think, in your work. In both of these books, you have a pregnancy happening while you re having to let go of someone. In the first case, it s the boyfriend. And in the second case, it s the daughter. And this to me is intriguing. Likewise, there s the poetry that is frequently throughout your books. And so I m saying that there s some stuff in here that I m wondering why not push this further? It s almost innately a part of a Jennifer Weiner book. Weiner: And no one notices it. It s interesting. Correspondent: I do. Weiner: Well, thank you. You are rare. You re a rare reader. Because for most people, it s like, Yeah! Shoe shopping! And I love shoe shopping. There s nothing wrong with it. But I always like it when people get those little coded things that sneak in there. Because I was a closet Trekkie. Correspondent: Yeah. Weiner: We can talk about that. Correspondent: Yeah, well, we can talk about that! Weiner: I m in a support group. Correspondent: I mean, let s say that you were to write a chick lit book. Or rather a novel. Let s just do away with this really ridiculous term. Because, quite frankly, if we were to apply David Copperfield to the same standards, it would be a chick lit book because it ends up happy. Weiner: Yes. Correspondent: So let s just go ahead and do away with that. And let s just talk about you, hypothetically, writing about a closet Trekkie who finds love or something. Or even Jezebel Bright. Weiner: Uh huh. Well, it could happen. I mean, I never really know what my next book s going to be until it just kind of comes. So there s two things I m playing with now. One is fiction. One is nonfiction. And the fiction one has really dark, dark, dark stuff going on. And I m not really sure how the whole science fiction part of the puzzle fits into it. But I don t know if it s going to be Jezebel Bright or if Jezebel Bright becomes the book within that book almost. The way it kind of did a little bit with Certain Girls and Lyla Dare and the Stargirls stuff. I don t know. We ll see. I ll have to wait for my muse to get in touch. I ll check my BlackBerry. (For our previous conversation with Jennifer Weiner, go here.)
