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The New Yorker: Pretty In Print

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.”


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The Boston Globe

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…


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KQED: Forum with Michael Krasny

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…


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San Francisco Chronicle: SF Gate Interview

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…


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The Moth: Mothering in Captivity

Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide.


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Vanity Fair: Adults These Days

You can’t throw a vegan muffin in this town without hitting a female who isn’t a Mollyite. And understandably so.


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New York Magazine: 103 Minutes with Molly Ringwald

Rifling through paperbacks with the eternal eighties darling, and new littérateur.


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Molly Ringwald Joins "The Dinner Party"

Episode 163: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Molly Ringwald, and Takis


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The Guardian/The Observer: Review of "When It Happens To You"

Molly Ringwald’s debut novel about a disintegrating marriage has a poignant universality


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Mobiledia: Molly Ringwald on Reinventing Herself

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…


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SALON: The A.M. Homes Interview

“How many actresses do you know that write?”


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Molly Ringwald's 6 favorite books

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


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Daily Beast TV

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.


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NYT Sunday Review

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…


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A Novel Endeavor From Molly Ringwald NPR

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 …


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Book Review: ‘When It Happens to You,’ by Molly Ringwald


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Shelf Awareness "Character Studies"

When It Happens to You (It Books, August 14, 2012) is a beautifully written debut novel-in-stories by Molly Ringwald.


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The NYT ArtsBeat Q&A

Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel


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The Today Show

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…


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The Today Show

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.”


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Chicago Tribune

Molly Ringwald shares her approach to writing and her thoughts on fiction and betrayal


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The London Observer

Brat pack sweetheart Molly Ringwald talks about her new novel, jazz and her surreal life since The Breakfast Club days


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LA Times

Molly Ringwald taps into ‘When It Happens to You’


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Interview Magazine

Molly Ringwald is happening.


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Reddit AMA

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…


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USA Today - Five Questions for Molly Ringwald

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:…


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Entertainment Weekly

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…


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Martha Stewart Living - "A Garden Grows Up"

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.


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Molly Ringwald publishes a serialized short story on Five Chapters

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:…


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New York Post - "My New York"

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,…


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"The Neverland Club" - New York Times Op-Ed on the Legacy of John Hughes

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…