Writing

Jennifer’s jokes appear in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes (Alpha/Penguin).

 

Jennifer is the author of the Dewars Guide to Debating, a 22-page standalone booklet packaged with Vice magazine. Click to download (PDF)
cover.gif Jen is quoted as an “expert” in Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights, by Jacob Kalish.
girls1.jpg Jen contributed a three-page “how-to” about fashion show planning to Wendy Shalit’s Girls Gone Mild.
Published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:

  • A MEMO TO MY NEW BOYFRIEND RE: CLARIFICATION OF OFFER
  • SELF-HELP BOOKS FOR HIPSTERS
  • AN OPEN LETTER TO JAMES RANDI REGARDING HIS “ONE MILLION DOLLAR PARANORMAL CHALLENGE”
  • Quizzes for City Scoops Magazine:

    A short piece to which Jen sold the film rights for the production of an animated short:

    Published on Junkiness.com:

    Published on HelloHilarious.com:

    Published on Economist.com:

    Pro-Blogging
    In addition to blogging at Jenisfamous.com since 2004 and maintaining the blog for the Williamsburg Spelling Bee, Jen was one of 16 bloggers in the US and Canada chosen for the Ford Motor Company’s blogger summit and has blogged professionally for Jewcy.com. Here are a few sample posts from her weeklong guest contributor stint there:

  • Jewishness Worth $500 Premium
  • Fundamentalists Right: Gays Are Only Gay When They Feel Like It
  • Nothing Wrong with a Little Proactive Propaganda
  • Cockfighting
  • How a Southern Gentile Learned About Judaism from Sassy Magazine
  • Next, We’ll Play “Adult Altar Boy”!
  • Gay Tweens Need Dolls
  • Our Troops Need Tampons 
  • Flocabulary: World War II in Hip-Hop
  • My Omnibus Farewell Post: GIRLS GONE MILD, Wendy Shalit, and “Modest Fashion Shows”
  • Print

    Jennifer has published over 150 newspaper articles in publications including The Virginian Pilot (as the “teen columnist” in the mid-nineties), Virginia Beach’s This Week at the Beach, and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. She is the winner of a National Society of Newspaper Columnists award in Humor Writing. Here are some of her clips:

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