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...Okay, so the chick-lit plot’s not exactly Natalie Krinsky??s “Chloe Does Yale” or Nick McDonell ’06’s “Twelve.” There are barely any drugs, the narrator is more concerned with drinking Diet Coke than selling cocaine, and over the course of 200 pages, there is only one “fuck,” one “kiss,” and one imaginary handjob...
...hardly needs graphic sex to be entertained—Jane Austen remains wildly popular, after all. A good writer’s illuminating prose and tense plot set-ups would be more than adequate substitutes for detailed bedroom scenes. But Krinsky??s vapid characters are so irritating that halfway through, the reader might begin praying for them to start randomly coupling. The most provocative parts of “Chloe” are its slightly altered chapter-ending reprints of Krinsky??s actual “Sex and the (Elm) City” columns (now bylined...
...many issues whose surfaces Chloe scratches could be rendered poignant if not tragic, but Krinsky??s approach lacks enough perspective. Disordered eating, romantic failures, sexual insecurity, the high pressure and elitism of an Ivy environment—all these problems are real. The lines outside every Ivy League school’s counseling offices are proof enough of that. And the paradigm of the young female who wants to be sexually liberated while simultaneously desperate to please the males around her is a real one—there’s a reason this genre...
While I-banking may be Krinsky??s long-term plan, writing a sex column for a professional newspaper is her immediate dream. She is pursuing internships at America’s finest journals, including Maxim, Stuff and Glamour. Asked if she would ever consider a post at Playboy, Krinsky replies “in a second...
...VH1’s “Behind the Music” demonstrates, with fame, sadly, comes the consequences of fame. There have been a few dates recently who were less than subtle about their fantasies of riding to their own sexual fame on Ms. Krinsky??s back—yes, literally. As a result, Krinsky has begun to proceed a little more cautiously in her own love life. However, she says that there have also been men at the other extreme, who fear that a minor gaffe in an evening with her would transform them from upright...