Jenny Lyn Bader

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Jenny Lyn Bader is a writer of plays, essays, and whimsy.

Whimsy just click on the descriptions below to read selected NY Times pieces and a little book excerpt... •Why We Chitchat How 9/11 affected the smallest conversations. •Essay on cultural icons •Essay on Memory and Britney •History of Girl Talk, from Jane Austen to Linda Tripp. Cameos by J.D. Salinger, V.S. Naipaul, and Bridget Jones! •Confessions of a Harvard Interviewer •Who Wants to Be You: Living Your Life in the Age of Identity Theft •Tale of the Male Stripper: A Bachelorette Party Gets Undressed •Alas, Poor Wolfgang: Who Finishes Your Art When You Die? •Looking for the Meaning of Life on the Internet •Novel Ads: why literary history is littered with missed branding opportunities •Everyone compared the Starr Report to a trash novel. But was it even that good? Volumnia Valence weighs in... (Jenny Lyn's first/perhaps most incendiary humor piece for the Week in Review) •How to Land the Bachelor An Ideas and Trends piece aimed at those dating on a major network... published in New York Times "Week in Review" May 5, 2002 •He Meant, She Meant: The Definitive Male-Female Dictionary - What Men Think They're Saying, What Women Really Mean Jenny Lyn Bader & Bill Brazell define 800 words from the male and female perspectives... it's like a foreign language dictionary, except instead of English/French, it's male/female!

Selected Works New York Times "Week in Review" •Why We Chitchat Post-9/11 Small Talk Looms Large •How to Land the Bachelor Primetime dating strategies! The Male-Female Dictionary! •He Meant, She Meant: The Definitive Male-Female Dictionary - What Men Think They're Saying, What Women Really Mean "Isn't this the funniest book ever?" -WCKG "A Berlitz crash course in the female language" -Men's Health "Very Cute and Very Funny!"-CNN "The most extraordinary invention for sex life since The Pill"-actual blurb on back of Italian edition, unattributed Quick Links! Pre-Order BEST 10-MINUTE PLAYS, including PAST LIVES, THIRD FIRST BLIND DOUBLE DATE, and ONE NIGHT AT YOUR LOCAL SUPERSTORE! (available July 2008) Listen to ARTSCAPE! (a lovely radio show, jenny lyn is a guest) Order UNDER THIRTY - a bookful of strong roles for young actors, it includes NONE OF THE ABOVE Bader vs. Kramer! Bader on Feiffer Visit Jenny Lyn's Dramatists Guild site and compare Authors Guild vs. Dramatists Guild interfaces... hm! Order BEST 10-MINUTE PLAYS, including THE POPCORN SONATA Visit Jenny Lyn's husband's web site! See Jenny Lyn wear the wrong color on CNN! Buy the Male-Female Dictionary! Read a Q&A with superheroine Breakup Girl! Buy LEADING WOMEN, a book that excerpts "Manhattan Casanova." A womanizer finally meets his match. Order HEAVEN AND HELL an anthology of related plays that includes Jenny Lyn's one-act "Worldness," about a jailed tree-sitter Order NEXT or read the essay "Larger Than Life" Visit Playwrights on the Web Find out more about the Authors Guild Write to Jenny Lyn

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