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more about #chicklit more comments → momentsofabsurdity: My parents are Silicon Valley millionaires (not that much in cash, but certainly almost double that in home equity) who don't feel rich enough because... more » Feminista09: Feminista is my book. (And you don't know how happy I was to see this because I STAY on Jezebel.) But "bitch lit" was a term Publisher's Weekly used i... more » Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: I prefer to truncate 'chick lit' to 'clit'. This is because it makes me laugh. 'Blit' just doesn't have the same ring to it... more » whynotshesaid: I'll buy it, if only to tell publishing houses to put out more books featuring prickly heroines who think about more than shoes and marriage. more » BaileyMessalla: Bitch lit? Who would want to date a girl who read those kind of books? I think this will only be popular with the hyper-brainy, fussy pants from the h... more » KATE!: the reason i can't stand chick-lit is the unapologetic celebration of bourgeois lifestyles. this quote makes it sound like this sydney character mig... more » bowleserised: If, in the last decade or two, you have had a book turned down by an editor or agent because the heroine is ""unsympathetic"", resubmit NOW! more » rixatrix: Chick lit seems so out of date now. Maybe that's true, but I can't be the only one who cringed the whole way through the "chick lit" trend, can I? It... more » Treeless: I am in support of Bitch Lit--what it represents, anyway, rather than the semantic unfairness of descriptions of more realistic and complex characters... more » LadyFabulous: Chick Lit, Bitch Lit... are all recently written/published books with women as the main characters categorized this way? Can't it just be Lit? more » sleepeatread: Chick Lit IS Bitch Lit! My favorite "chick lit" is Jennifer Weiner. more » ZemarSea Urchin: Variety. I love my trashy romance novels but it is hell trying to find something fun or interesting to read. Right now the aisles are filled with vamp... more » greengrey: I could see this being bearable. I find a mean as sin bitch who relies on herself (not some ass in a suit) to get her material trinkets much more inte... more » echoparkgal: I want great feminist science fiction or fantasy writing. I'm so over paranormal slutfi - If I see one more story about a leather-clad independent inv... more » thatsrealbutter: i'm just gonna go hide in the corner with my new Lorrie Moore more » -
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Is "Bitch Lit" The Cure For The Common Chick Lit Novel?
Sydney Zamora is a brash, calculating and unrepentant heroine who is quick to drop a suitor and curse him out as she extracts herself from the date. Is she the new prototype for chick lit characters?
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#chicklitcrit
Is "New Chick Lit" Just A Different Kind Of Obnoxious?
The interwebs are abuzz this week with news of a shift in chick lit from Shopaholic-style conspicuous consumption to more recession-appropriate storylines. But is this "new chick lit" just more of the same, dressed up in slightly cheaper clothes? More » -
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Cliches, Reinforced.
Middle-aged woman like to read about sex. There. Are you happy? Insert chocolate joke. [Telegraph] -
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Gertrude Stein: “Unreadable, Self-Indulgent And Excruciatingly Boring.”
A new book by critic Elaine Showalter begs the question, are women writers now just writers? More » -
