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...YORK—"I feel like the college years, it's the years where you're trying to figure yourself out through trial and error," said Megan McCafferty, the chick-lit novelist whose work was “internalized” by Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan...
...want to be loved, yes, but only if we’re worthy. We know that going to Harvard carries with it the burden of having to deal with added expectations, scrutiny, and additional (often unnecessary) media attention. Just ask our embattled sophomore chick-lit author about that...
...takes something more than wish-fulfillment and a funny premise, however, to win so much attention. Like “Mean Girls,” “Opal Mehta” is chick lit mixed with satire. Rather than Queen Bees/Wannabes, however, Opal Mehta represents what might be called the Pre-Organization Kid, the protozoan phase of the sociological type first dutifully reduced to caricature by David Brooks in 2001. “The Organization Kid,” he wrote, is fatally “goal-oriented...
Despite these influences, “Friends with Money” transcends becoming a clichéd dystopian narrative or chick flick, in part because of its pensive cinematography and a mournful, unique Rickee Lee Jones soundtrack. The film really captivates, though, because of its freshness as a distinctly post-feminist, post-boomer, twenty-first century story. It frightened me so much that these familiar feeling women—who have broken the glass ceiling, had their perfect children, built their Barbie dream home, and still have amazing social lives and fabulous shoes—are supposed...
Defying convention, romantic side-plots in “Take the Lead” do not overwhelm the movie. Guys certainly don’t have to worry about this film dissolving into a masked chick flick. While there are several love triangles and love dilemmas in the movie, they are tactfully sprinkled throughout...