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...huge risk for an author. "I understand that not everybody likes my characters," she admits affably. "It gets mentioned to me. I just want to be honest about the way people are." It's this daring that separates Sittenfeld's work from the stacks of Day Glo-colored chick-lit novels that clog the aisles of bookstores. Here's another example: she never tells the reader whether Hannah is beautiful. "When a female character feels insecure, and then all the other characters are saying, 'But you're so awesome, you're so funny, you're the best!' you almost know...
...Then there's the matter of trying to sell stuff. For a while she worked in the surf shop, which seems like a good fit for a surfie chick. But Biles, 27, couldn't bear having to push people toward clothing that they didn't come to buy. She's happier now next door serving in the Perfect Break vegetarian caf?, where people ask her for a coffee and that's what she gives them...
Yeah, she's a singer--and a good-lookin' chick...
...Chick-lit begs belittlement because it doesn’t present itself as pure literature. Two-thirds of the cover of McCafferty’s newest book, “Charmed Thirds,” shows the hind-quarters of the book’s twenty-something Columbia University protagonist, Jessica Darling, who appears to be lounging in a sparsely decorated room with all of the trappings of college life. At first glance, the book looks like an unusually thick extension to YM magazine...
...Kaavyagate” made the world think that chick-lit could offer no new insights, that the experiences of contemporary young women, reflected in literature, were mass-produced and cliché. “Charmed Thirds,” on the other hand, shows us the genre at its best; it’s literature full of life, unique voices, and unforgettable characters...