Best-Selling author Jennifer Belle shares the method she's used to write five novels, that time she worked with Madonna, how to write sex scenes, and the path that led to publishing her latest novel, Swanna in Love with Akashic Books. 

Jennifer Belle is the best-selling author of five novels, Going Down (which was named best debut novel by Entertainment Weekly and optioned for the screen twenty-seven times), High Maintenance, Little Stalker, and The Seven Year Bitch; and Animal Stackers, a picture book for children (illustrated by David McPhail). Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Independent (London), Harper’s Bazaar, Ms., BlackBook, the New York Observer, Post Road, and many anthologies. Her most recent work is Swanna in Love. You can follow her on Instagram @jenniferbellewriter.

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Books & Writers referenced in this episode

True Grit by Charles Potis

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore

All Fours by Miranda July

The Fuck Up by Arthur Nersesian

Marilyn Rothstein

Liz Tigelaar 

Movies & TV shows mentioned:

Katie's Mom

I Love Lucy

The Carol Burnett Show

Saturday Night Live