On a recent Saturday night, the actress Molly Ringwald hosted a book party at the Crosby Hotel, in SoHo, for her first novel, “When It Happens to You.”
I wondered, as I opened “When It Happens to You,” a novel in stories by Molly Ringwald, just how long it would take for me to forget the author was the actress who made me wish I was a redhead…
Actress Molly Ringwald was the teen idol of the 1980s for her roles in iconic films like “Pretty in Pink,” “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club.” Now a novelist, Ringwald joins us to talk about her book, “When It Happens to…
Molly Ringwald, who became a teen idol for her roles in “Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club,” is now 44 and living in Los Angeles with her husband, Panio Gianopoulos, and their three young children, Mathilda, Adele and…
Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide.
You can’t throw a vegan muffin in this town without hitting a female who isn’t a Mollyite. And understandably so.
Rifling through paperbacks with the eternal eighties darling, and new littérateur.
Episode 163: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Molly Ringwald, and Takis
Molly Ringwald’s debut novel about a disintegrating marriage has a poignant universality
In a way, Molly Ringwald is a lot like anyone who’s known for just one thing. Whether it’s an iconic actress, or an accountant, mom or former-football quarterback — these labels become inadequate to describe the sum of the aspirations and…
“How many actresses do you know that write?”
The founding member of Hollywood’s “Brat Pack” picks the fiction and poetry that inspired her just-published debut novel, When It Happens to You
America’s 80s icon is back with a new book, ‘When It Happens to You.’ Watch her open up about penning her novel, the perils of Twitter and why she’s convinced Duckie was gay.
I think there is a natural curiosity that many people have when they hear about an actor writing fiction. While it’s not exactly comparable to proving a mathematical theorem (Danica McKellar, the girl from “The Wonder Years,” can boast about that…
The actress and author’s first novel, When It Happens to You, is built of interlocking short stories about a group of characters who orbit each other and …
Book Review: ‘When It Happens to You,’ by Molly Ringwald
When It Happens to You (It Books, August 14, 2012) is a beautifully written debut novel-in-stories by Molly Ringwald.
Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel
The actress famous for her roles in “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles” tells TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb about her new book “When It Happens to You,” and reveals that she wants her young daughter to pursue an…
Actress Molly Ringwald, best known for her roles in iconic ‘80s movies like “Sixteen Candles” and “Pretty in Pink,” chats with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie about her foray into fiction: a new collection of short stories, “When It Happens to You.”
Molly Ringwald shares her approach to writing and her thoughts on fiction and betrayal
Brat pack sweetheart Molly Ringwald talks about her new novel, jazz and her surreal life since The Breakfast Club days
Molly Ringwald taps into ‘When It Happens to You’
Molly Ringwald is happening.
Hi everyone. I’m Molly Ringwald. You probably know me from Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Though I do lots of other things like write books, speak a little French and, until I started a twitter account three days…
Molly Ringwald, 44, original member of the Brat Pack, is best known for the iconic coming-of-age movies Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Now she’s an author and back with her second book, When It Happens to You:…
When she isn’t acting in The Secret Life of the American Teenager or singing with a jazz band, Molly Ringwald (The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink) writes fiction. Her first novel, When It Happens to You (a “novel in stories,” according…
In my twenties I inherited a rooftop garden from the former owners of my New York City apartment. It was hardly a garden at all—more like the neglected remains of one.
As far as Greta knew, there was nothing in the sky that night. Lying on her back in the bathroom on the cool of the white marble tiles, she heard the summons again. Her husband tapped the horn of the car:…
Molly Ringwald knows her big cities. The movie star, mother of three and author — her first collection of short stories, “When It Happens to You,” will be in bookstores next month — has lived in Paris for almost a decade,…
In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become. Very often it’s a teacher, a mentor of some kind. For me, that person was John Hughes…