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...known as the creator of Chica lit - chick lit with a Latin flair. Just as Terry McMillan put the spotlight on the African-American reading community, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's best-selling first novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, focused attention on, and energized, the Hispanic literary scene in 2003. Now she's back with a lively new book, Make Him Look Good (St. Martin's Press), which plays up Miami's music, club and modeling scenes. She spoke with Andrea Sachs, TIME's publishing reporter, about the politics of immigration, Lou Dobbs and being labeled as Latina...
...interesting to see you use chick lit as a political statement. It's not thought of as a political genre...
...didn't write my first novel knowing it would be categorized as chick lit or anything like that. I try to write the books on a couple of levels. I want it to be, on the surface level, very fashionable and fun...and funny. Someone doesn't necessarily have to look at the other layers. But those are also present...
...very diverse group of people. You can be of any race, any religion, any socio-economic background. It's almost a make-believe category. But there was a paper in New York that said something like, Valdes-Rodriguez is bringing the Third World just what it needs - chick lit. I thought, what about me is Third World? This person did not understand. And when she saw my last name, her perception of my ethnicity was of someone from the Third World. So my feelings on it change. I really think that 500 years from now, everyone will look back upon...
Sittenfeld's relationship with chick lit has never been quite comfortable--but in a way, chick lit has never been totally comfortable with itself. As a genre it sets itself the task of chronicling the (literarily underserved) lives of contemporary single women--but then, all too often, it suffers a failure of nerve and settles for regurgitating exactly the clichés about boys and shopping and cattiness that it should be rectifying. "I almost feel like the premises of plenty of chick-lit books are ones that I would love to read!" Sittenfeld says, exasperated. "It's almost like they...