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Jennie Yabroff

Jennie Yabroff
Jennie Yabroff is a former arts writer for Newsweek magazine. She has also written for the New York Times, Salon.com, and Elle Decor. She lives in New York.
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While We Trek Into Darkness, Let’s Trek With Respect for the Past

This weekend, eager Trekkies will be lining up to catch early screenings of the latest movie, "Star Trek Into Darkness," which once again pits the crew of Starship Enterprise against forces of otherworldly evil. For a look at Star Trek memories from the first generation of cast members and beyond, beam...(READ MORE)

The Stories We Tell, and the Secrets We Keep

In the documentary "Stories We Tell," director and actress Sarah Polley discovers that what she thought she knew about her mother, an actress who died when Polley was eleven, has only a glancing relationship with the truth.(READ MORE)

Tail-Wagging Reads: 6 Biographies and Memoirs for Dog Lovers

In A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, writer Sue Halpern describes what happens when she decides to train her Labradoodle, Pransky, as a therapy dog, and take him into a public nursing home to work with the elderly residents. For more adventures in canine companionship, check out these books.(READ MORE)

Painters and Provocateurs: The NYC Art Scene of the ’70s and ’80s

In his memoir, Bad Boy, Eric Fischl recalls the heady days of the early 1980s, the price he paid for the excesses of his youth, and his ultimate acceptance of his place in the art world. For more tales of the cocaine-and-acrylic-scented milieu in which Fischl came of age, check out these biographies and...(READ MORE)

Harnessing the Hive Mind: 5 Biographies on Group Dynamics

In Robert Kaiser's book Acts of Congress, he uses uses the Dodd-Frank Act as a means of investigating how Congress works -- and doesn’t -- concluding that this branch of the government can sometimes, miraculously, get things done. Congress is not the only group capable of performing the occasional miraculous...(READ MORE)

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s: 4 Memoirs on the Art of High Style

The title of the new documentary, "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s," is rooted in reality, not marketing magic. Actress Susan Lucci recalls overhearing a woman in the dressing room say, “when I die, I want you to sprinkle my ashes at Bergdorf’s. Just sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.” Here are some...(READ MORE)

Gals ‘Round Galway: The Literary Gifts of Irish Women

Throughout Edna O'Brien's new memoir The Country Girl, her distinctive Irish voice, at once lyric and frank, tells the story of a changing Ireland. Here’s a list of more memoirs and biographies of Irish women with stories immense, touching and worth ever word.(READ MORE)