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Weiner's witty, satirical voice.
For the outspoken 31-year-old
author, who's marrying a nice Jewish
attorney in October, the novel is sweet
revenge. She got to make Cannie's ex-
boyfriend a loser-slacker-Deadhead,
just like her own ex-boyfriend. And
she gave him a dorky name: Bruce
Guberman.
"The day I named him that was a
very happy day, because it makes him
sound like such a drip," she says with
a laugh.
During an interview, Shapiro is
warm, sardonic, sarcastic, alternately
self-confident and self-deprecating.
She fields calls from her agent and her
therapist, then apologizes for taking a
break from the matter at hand. She
talks about her Jewish wedding, which
is going to be fancier — from the
Good in Bed proceeds.
Like Cannie, Weiner's tortured

ennifer Weiner began writing
Good in Bed during a bout of
Dumpers Regret in 1998.
She'd been dating her nice-
Jewish-writer boyfriend for a few
years, but no engagement ring was
forthcoming. So she requested a trial
separation. "I went home and pro-
ceeded to think about the relationship,
and he went home and proceeded to
date someone else," she says.
That's when the Dumper's Regret
kicked in. Weiner moped around, feel-
ing like she'd never smile again, lung-
ing for the phone every time it rang in
case it was her "Ex."
"I obsessed about him," she says.
"I'd get mad whenever his horoscope
said he was going to have a good day
for romance. "
One Friday night, six
When she returned home
months after the breakup,
from Israel, Weiner discovered
Weiner called the Ex.
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That weekend, she
"That
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of
thin°
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vowed to do something
messes
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constructive with her pain
— and decided to write a
childhood propelled her into becom-
novel about a broken-hearted woman.
ing (what else?) a writer. "I was funny-
Weiner tried to envision what would
looking," she says. "I had braces. I felt
make the fictional breakup the worst
like an outsider in so many ways."
one ever. She recalled the day she
In Weiner's WASP-y hometown of
opened Cosmopolitan magazine and
Simsbury,
Conn. (her parents both
. discovered the "Sizzling Sex Tips" col-
grew
up
in
Detroit), her house was the
umn had been written by a guy she'd
only
one
on
the street without
casually dated.
Christmas
decorations.
In second
Never mind that the guy hadn't
grade, a classmate told her she'd killed
been good in bed; Weiner was terrified
Jesus.
he'd written about her.
"I insisted I'd never killed anyone,"
She wasn't in the article. But the
she
recalls.
heroine of Good in Bed isn't so lucky.
"He
said, It must've been your par-
At the beginning of this frothy,
ents.'"
semi-autobiographical novel, the fic-
The Jewish kids weren't any nicer.
tional Cannie Shapiro discovers she's
"On
my teen summer trip to Israel, no
the subject of her ex-boyfriend's new
one wanted to room with me or sit
sex column. A series of comic misad-
next to me on the bus," Weiner
ventures ensues. Like Weiner, Cannie
recalls.
is a tall, zaftig Philadelphia entertain-
"I had to hike up Mount Masada
ment journalist with a deadbeat dad, a
alone."
lesbian mom and a quirky rat terrier.
When she returned home, she dis-
The wickedly funny, light summer
covered
that her hypercritical psychia-
romance turns serious while retaining

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