In the 25 years since Jennifer Weiner’s first book Good in Bed debuted, much has changed.
a]:text-blue-mid [&>a]:no-underline [&>a]:hover:shadow-lightmode px-4 font-medium”>Good In Bed spent almost a year on The New York Times Best Seller list and was part of the early aughts’ pop-culture body positivity arsenal that gave curvy girls the courage to demand to be seen on the red carpet and in shopping haunts.
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a]:text-blue-mid [&>a]:no-underline [&>a]:hover:shadow-lightmode px-4 font-medium”>Weiner, who was single when she wrote Good In Bed, has gone through her fair share of life changes. She married, had two daughters, — Lucy and Phoebe — divorced, married again; this time to her “second and final husband.”
a]:text-blue-mid [&>a]:no-underline [&>a]:hover:shadow-lightmode px-4 font-medium”>Weiner, who grew up in Connecticut and moved to Philadelphia in 1994 for a job at The Inquirer, has written 20 adult novels, a collection of essays, and three novels for middle grade students.
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Universal Pictures optioned the rights to develop her 2025 book Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits. Amy Sherman-Palladino will write and direct.
a]:text-blue-mid [&>a]:no-underline [&>a]:hover:shadow-lightmode px-4 font-medium”>“I feel really, really lucky that I’ve gotten to do this for this long,” Weiner said on a recent video call. She was sitting at her desk, sipping iced coffee from a mason jar that her Instagram feed influenced her to buy.
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a]:text-blue-mid [&>a]:no-underline [&>a]:hover:shadow-lightmode px-4 font-medium”>The conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.
a]:text-blue-mid [&>a]:no-underline [&>a]:hover:shadow-lightmode px-4 font-medium”>We take our dog Levon, third in our series of terriers, out for a walk at Mario Lanza Park in our Queen Village neighborhood.
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Fiore Fine Foods in Queen Village. Because it’s my perfect Philly Day, they have not moved [to Kensington] from our neighborhood. I’d order an iced coffee and the Saltie, a breakfast sandwich with scrambled eggs and ricotta cheese. It’s just the perfect breakfast sandwich.
G-Strength. It’s funny, the same women who were doing step aerobics in the 1990s and aughts, and transitioned to yoga and Pilates, are now lifting weights. It’s like we all read the same health articles.
Bicycle Club of Philadelphia. Since it’s a perfect day, the weather is great, there aren’t any cars parked in the bike lane, and people go around me without honking. I’d make my way up 26th Street, along the Schuylkill Banks, and meet at the Philadelphia Museum of Art or Cosmic Cafe and ride through Manayunk up to Narberth. We’d stop at GET Café and Little Blue Owl Baking Company. The joke at the bike club is we are riding for coffee and a croissant.
Forîn Cafe on South Street for a matcha. That’s my daughter’s thing, she loves matcha.
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ACE Coffee Outpost, a vintage clothing shop and cafe, and B-Bop, a shop that sells plus-size clothes. There is a chance I’ll go to Merrygold Shop and Wall Flower Paper & Party where they have cute baby things, presents, and beautiful cards.
a]:text-blue-mid [&>a]:no-underline [&>a]:hover:shadow-lightmode px-4 font-medium”>Because it’s the perfect Philly day, I have the opportunity to bend the rules of time and space. So, now it’s 10 a.m. again and my husband and I are walking to places that would still be open at this time of day like the Mighty Bread Company or Machine Shop Boulangerie in the Bok. Then we’d walk to Superétte on Passyunk.
Juana Tamale. My favorite is the birria quesadilla.
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Emma Copley Eisenberg, who might be reading from her new book, Fat Swim. I went to see the billboard the first day it was up. I work with her at Blue Stoop.
As a columnist, I write about gender, race, fashion, culture and wellness. I share my personal take on the way we live and how we style our lives.
