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Jennifer Massoni Magazine Journalist

Jennifer Massoni
Jennifer Massoni
San Francisco
Member since: Apr, 2008
Last login: 03/15/2009
Last update : 08/31/2009
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  • 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.

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  • “Mixed Authors & Best-Selling Drinks" = Grand Success!

    July 16, 2008

    • What a night! It was so wonderful to meet so many of our local authors who gathered at literary institution Tosca last night for a swell party. I also want to say a big THANK YOU to our co-hosts Will and Debi Durst for endless laughs, Tosca'a Jeannette Etheridge for the best venue we could have asked for, and Green Apple Books for supplying copies of Will's latest: The All-American Sport of ...
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  • Salman Rushdie says stories have to have "jump," and other things I learned at his City Arts & Lectures appearance

    June 20, 2008

    • It’s not every evening that you can sit, just four rows in, and listen to one of our great contemporary writers talk candidly about writing, history, politics, and even Scarlett Johansson. But hearing KQED’s Michael Krasny’s relaxed interview with Salman Rushdie on Wednesday evening, it was the writing bit that I held onto—and feverishly tried to memorize—for the next time I found ...
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  • I think I just ran a really long race

    April 29, 2008

    • I'm not a racer. I am a runner. I ran around the neighborhood when I was growing up, when we hopped on and off bikes; around the track in high school; and around a reservoir in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts during college. I haven’t competed as a runner since high school Cross Country meets on dusty hills near Crystal Springs. I haven’t trained for a marathon. It wasn’t until a friend ...
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  • Red Room Panel Update

    April 24, 2008

    • Thanks to all who joined a packed house to hear this week’s Commonwealth Club panel on Red Room. It was a great evening for writers to meet and discuss their thoughts on community. The discussion was recorded for radio and filmed by our production team, so please visit the site soon to hear and view segments of the event. And, personally, I loved the opportunity to meet our panelists and ...
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  • Commonwealth Club Panel on Red Room this Monday, April 21st

    April 19, 2008

    • While there are many perks to working with over 800 accomplished and diverse authors, I will have the special honor of hearing five of them speak this coming Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The panel is titled "Red Room: Building A Community For Writers," and the discussion will focus on the need for community among writers and readers and the future of publishing in ...
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Reviews I've Written

  • That Neal Pollack is one funny guy.

    July 16, 2008
    At the risk of absolutely never being nearly an eighth as funny as Neal Pollack is in this anthology, I'll say it straight: Read this book!

  • Esther Stories

    April 18, 2008
    It’s interesting how you come to love a book--from the moment you hear about it or pluck it from a shelf, purchase it, and add it to the pile of books you’ve been meaning to read.
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Comments I've Written

  • This is hilarious!

    I always love seeing where and how writers work. This takes things to a whole new level, however. And seeing that Macintosh Classic was, well, pretty classic.

  • Dynamite Video

    What a fantastic reading, Meg.

  • Ben saves the day!

    Like Carolyn noted as well, I love to know that a successful, prolific novel writer like yourself also doesn't outline or storyboard. I've struggled with that in my own writing.

  • NY Nights

    What a great piece of nostalgia this is: for New York in the 60s, for a great young lost icon, for your own new days in the big city…and for my own.

  • Thanks, Belle!

    That's so sweet of you! I definitely plan on doing this again...maybe I'll go for the half-marathon next time!

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