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"Ms. Weisberger's first novel, The Devil Wears Prada, which is being made into a movie starring Meryl Streep, has sold more than 1.2 million copies, and her second novel, Everyone Worth Knowing, made its debut at No. 10 on The New York Times best-seller list."
   —The New York Times

"Weisberger, who's so down-to-earth that she seems like the girl-two-doors-down, is also not too cool to eat. Orders a sandwich. Lunges at it. Which—having been with some New York girls in my time—I find frankly shocking."
   —The National Post (Canada)

"The novel is a highly readable account of the not quite workaday life of Andrea Sachs, a recent college graduate who lands a job "a million girls would die for" as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of Runway magazine."
   —The Forward

"Glam lit is an outgrowth of some previous chick-lit best sellers, featuring women in high-drama fields like magazines. Most notable was Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada, in which a character at a fashion publication similar to Vogue gave readers a fictional glimpse into the fashion world."
   —The Wall Street Journal

"Weisberger who has just signed up to write her third book is back with another light-hearted look at a twenty-something's life in New York."
   —The Jerusalem Post

"Lauren Weisberger says she hopes no one takes her book seriously. That's not something you hear every day from an author."
   —Daily News

"Yet the 56-year-old commander in chief and the 53-year-old editrix of Vogue have been thrown together—victims of a new literary trend known as Boss Betrayal... Ms. Weisberger's fictional Anna runs her magazine as efficiently "as a military operation," with high-heeled staffers who run when called."
   —The New York Times

"Everyone Worth Knowing is Bette's education in the wicked, wicked ways of the velvet rope and red-carpet crowd as Weisberger gives us an amusing if naivély earnest tour of Manhattan after dark."
   —Daily News

"Weisberger may not have taken inspiration from Wintour, but she does admit to putting 'the impossibly tall thin people and the ambiance at Vogue' to good use."
   —Publishers Weekly

"Rumor has it that Vogue Editor in Chief Anna "Nuclear" Wintour is looking for a new assistant. The position is one of the most sought after jobs for fashionistas-in-training, but after reading The Devil Wears Prada, a dishy roman à clef written by Wintour's one-time assistant Lauren Weisberger, masochists might be the only ones brave enough to apply."
   —San Francisco Weekly

"Lighten up, and enjoy the show on the Runway. And please don't confuse me with any loose-lipped assistants."
   —Time Magazine

"...she has penned a witty send-up of the phenomenally distorted world that is the inner workings of a fashion magazine. And the critics have wasted no time in assuming this novel is a not-so-cunningly disguised, vengeful retaliation for Weisberger's year spent at Wintour's side."
   —Daily News

"I don't think it's a roman à clef... Other people are calling it that. I'm calling it a novel."
   —Los Angeles Times


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