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New York Times - Leash Wars

Listen, it’s not personal. I’m totally fine with you running a combo boot camp-yoga class in the park...




New York Times - Look Out, Soccer Moms: She’s Got You Nailed

In “Carpool Diem,” the latest book by Nancy Star, a backstabbing throng of New Jersey parents plot against one another to land their preteen daughters on an ...




New York Daily News — Book and Play Kick New Life Into the Soccer Mom Cliche

We all know the soccer mom. She's got her minivan, her oversize purse, her energy drinks, her Band-Aids, her to-do list, her cell phone, her spare set of keys and anything else an athlete under 10 could ever need.




The Star-Ledger — Parental Guidance Suggested — For Parents

The heroine of Nancy Star’s new novel “Carpool Diem”, Annie Fleming, is a high-powered executive living with her family in the fictional town of Mountain View. She thinks she has it all, but after she is fired from her 80-hour-a –week job she sees her family is falling apart.




BroadwayWorld.com — SECRETS OF A SOCCER MOM to Host Talk Backs and Signings

SECRETS OF A SOCCER MOM, a new play by Kathleen Clark directed by two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey, will be hosting two talk backs & book signings with critically acclaimed authors Nancy Star, Adriana Trigiani, Meg Wolitzer and Jill A. Davis respectively, to kick-off the spring soccer season.




Podcast- Interview with "Walking on Air" co-hosts, Betsy and Sal, from stations WLBK, KWPC, WBYS and WRAM (our friends in the mid-west)

Radio talk-show hosts and sisters, Betsy and Sal, take their morning walk "on air" discussing everything from politics to fashion magazines. Skip ahead (to minute 21) if you want to go straight to their entertaining interview with Nancy Star about CARPOOL DIEM.




Podcast- Travel Talk Radio

Host Sandy Dhuyvetter interviews tipping expert, Nancy Star.




Podcast- Nancy Star Interview with Doug Cope of WBZ news radio

Star takes a satirical look at the typical soccer mom in her work but finds much of what she depicts hits close to home.