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Jennifer Massoni Magazine Journalist

About Me

Jennifer Massoni
Jennifer Massoni
San Francisco
Member since: Apr, 2008
Last login: 03/15/2009
Last update : 08/21/2008
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Birthday02/12/1980
HometownPortola Valley, CA
NicknameJenn
EthnicityWhite/Caucasian
NationalityUnited States

About Me

  • Journalist and editor Jennifer Massoni has worked at Vanity Fair, where she was the associate editor of Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties, was the senior editor of Gentry magazine for three years, and directed the 2006 launch of CAFE magazine. A fifth-generation San Franciscan, Massoni graduated with English Honors from Boston College and completed the Columbia Publishing Course in 2002. And, yes, she is trying to finish a novel of her own.

Interests & Hobbies

  • Reading, writing, reading about writing, writing about reading.

Favorite Books

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Believers, How to Breathe Underwater, Saturday

Favorite Authors

  • Joan Didion, Michael Cunningham, Milan Kundera, Charles Baxter, Ian McEwan, Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, Denis Johnson, Eric Puchner, Julie Orringer, Nora Pierce, Bill Hayes, Neal Pollack, Augusten Burroughs, Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy

What I'm Reading

  • The Anatomist by Bill Hayes, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, Neal Pollack's Anthology of American Literature

CAUSES I SUPPORT

  • Sunbeam Foundation
    Greenpeace