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BJ Novak
Tweenage Dirtbag: How Tween Hobo Alena Smith Turned Her Twitter Account Into a Career
Alena Smith, the playwright and author, is not what comes to mind when you think of the word “tween.” For starters, she’s 34 years old. And her credentials include off-Broadway productions like The Bad Guys as well as a stint writing for the last season of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. But standing in front of an audience at BookCourt last Thursday night, Ms. Smith transformed her usually confident voice to slope upward: the question mark lilt hinting at a voice of a generation (as Ms. Smith’s fan Lena Dunham might put it) albeit one a smidge younger than her own.
That’s What He Said: BJ Novak and the Politics of Literary Celebrity
On Thursday night last week, B.J. Novak was at the recently opened Word Bookstore in Jersey City, New Jersey, on
