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Jennifer Wright

Jennifer Wright is the author of “It Ended Badly: Thirteen of The Worst Break-Ups In History” and the upcoming “Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues And The Heroes That Fought Them” (MacMillan). You can follow her on Twitter @JenAshleyWright.

A vigil in Orlando, Florida. June 19, 2016. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

Gun violence and the death of joy: We’re losing the places where we once felt safe

Jennifer Wright
Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath on "Girls" (HBO)

We are the lamest generation!

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I’m tweeting “The Great Gatsby”

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Neurotic’s guide to fasting

Jennifer Wright
From left: Charlie MacArthur, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott (WIkipedia/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-54776p1.html"'>Vitaly Korovin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My Dorothy Parker years

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Lessons of a very sexy pirate costume

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What I learned as a nude model

Jennifer Wright