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...example, Sephy's attempt to cut it as a singer in the noughts' underground music scene feels peripheral (and lyrically, she's no Eminem). But Blackman promises to end her bleak trilogy next year on a note of hope. What a nice, old-fashioned idea - especially for kid lit...
...chicks have chick lit, what do guys have? There's a clever answer out there--which unfortunately is just the other side of printable in a family magazine--but it is a serious question. So-called chick-lit authors like Helen Fielding and Candace Bushnell are writing smart, incisive, funny-as-hell books about what it's like to be a woman in the current romantic marketplace. Shouldn't a few guys step up and do the same? A few guys besides Nick Hornby, that...
...tough part about writing boy books, as we may as well call them (hey, chick lit doesn't rhyme either), is that a lot of guys just aren't all that complicated. Such a man is David, the 27-year-old protagonist of Scott Mebus' Booty Nomad (Miramax Books; 392 pages). David is a TV producer struggling to bounce back from a horrific breakup with a woman he can bring himself to refer to only as the Eater of Souls. Like Tom, David gets plastered, visits a strip club, hits on his female friends and longs for an unattainable lady...
...course, Bridget Jones isn't the only flavor of chick lit around. Though it's non-fiction, Harry Stein's The Girl Watchers Club (HarperCollins; 315 pages) takes its cues from Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: it celebrates the folksy wisdom of an older generation of men. The Girl Watchers Club is an informal cabal of men in their 70s and 80s who meet once a week to prowl yard sales and grouse about things "these days." These are men who grew up in the Depression and came...
...Tiny cells lining a long, dimly-lit corridor contain people who until recently were considered some of Iraq's most dangerous insurgents. Their inspiration, they say, comes directly from al-Qaeda. So too did some of their instructions, until the American invasion of Iraq smashed Ansar's base in northern Iraq, and sent its members fleeing into Iran. "About 35 Saudis came to see us from al-Qaeda before the war, in order to cement their relationship with us," says Quds Hassan Abbas, 32, who led one of Ansar's fighting battalions until shortly before the war erupted...