Jennifer Egan Wins Pulitzer Prize, Commits Girl-on-Girl Crime. When I found out that Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, I was thrilled.
Girl power! That lasted about two minutes until someone pointed me to a Wall Street Journal post in which she calls chick-lit genre writing banal and derivative and that her advice to young writers is to aim higher. Oh goody, some literary girl-on-girl crime. "There was that scandal with the Harvard student who was found to have plagiarized. But she had plagiarized very derivative, banal stuff. That Harvard student she is referring to is Kaavya Viswanathan, a young woman who, in 2006, published a novel right out of high school called How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. This is the thing that gets me -- after a year where we saw a lot of talk about how women do not get the same attention from literary publications as their male counterparts --- #Franzenfreude anyone? And so was Julie, the author of the The Signature Thing: I read across a lot of genres.
50 Chick Lit Novels That Are Still Worthwhile Reads. Reports of Chick Lit's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated - Entertainment. Have we fallen out of love with chick lit? - Books. A stiletto and a cupcake on a pink jacket used to guarantee your novel would fly off the shelf.
But now publishers are asking if the chick lit genre is exhausted after a spectacular slump in sales. Sales of the most recent novels by commercial women’s authors including Marian Keyes, Jodi Picoult, Veronica Henry, Catherine Alliott, Louise Mensch MP (née Bagshawe), Dorothy Koomson, Harriet Evans, Jill Mansell and Lesley Pearse are all down by more than 20 percent on their previous mass market publications over comparative sales periods, The Bookseller has found. Victims include Keyes, whose latest novel, The Brightest Star in the Sky, has sold 260 000 copies since February, down 42 percent on her previous book. Picoult’s Harvesting the Heart is down almost 50 percent on her previous novel, with 120 235 copies, and Henry’s The Birthday Party recorded a 71 percent slump to 16 479 copies. Lette argued that the market had been flooded with “a lot of second-rate writing”. Tastes are evolving. The decline of chick lit. Is chick lit dead?
Or does the genre just have a massive hangover? Ten years ago, bookstores were stacked with bright pink covers sporting illustrations of boppy urban singles. In these novels, pals often shared cosmopolitans, gabbed about shoes and searched for Mr. Right. The death of chick lit - Publishing. Is chick lit dead?
Less than a decade after commentators clucked at bookstore shelves lined with cartoon high-heels and pink cocktail glasses, the only debate that the once-flourishing genre inspires now is over when to run its obituary. Some say chick lit is well and truly defunct, while others insist there’s some life in the old girl yet. Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature. [Tara had] been wearing a size fourteen for some time now, but it was only ever meant to be a temporary measure, until she’d lost weight and gone back to being a size twelve.
Mind you, wearing a size twelve was only meant to have been a temporary measure also, until she slimmed down and went back to her correct weight, her true size, her spiritual home of size ten. But now, with the waistband of her skirt so tight it was crushing her internal organs, she reluctantly began to face the fact that maybe she’d better buy some size sixteens.
Just so she could breathe. Reconstruction 11.3 (2011): Gender and Popular Fiction, edited by Cameron Leader-Picone and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson. Return to Contents» <1> Chick lit’s controversial reputation within literary circles poses challenges to critics seeking to analyze gender politics in contemporary culture through the context of popular forms.
However, Stephanie Harzewski’s Chick Lit and Postfeminism negotiates the critical terrain pragmatically as the book examines how chick lit’s synthesis of genres and literary traditions has positioned the genre as “the most visible form of postfeminist fiction” (8). Chick Lit's Re-Packaging of Plagiarism: The Debate Over Chick Lit's Influence on Authorship and Publishing. Rachel V.
Smydra E-mail: smydra@oakland.edu Abstract A public charge of plagiarism involving Harvard undergraduate Kaavya Viswanathan ignited a discussion about the creative process of “chick lit” books, and as a result, the validity of the “chick lit” genre itself. Viswanathan’s case involves much more than plagiarism by a first-time author; the case has made many take a closer look at the publishing industry—how it operates, the pressures that may lead to plagiarism for “chick lit” writers, and behaviors that ignore the use of authors’ intellectual property in the pursuit of revenues and profits. In 2006, the story of a Harvard University sophomore initiated a discussion that has grown into something much larger than many anticipated: a debate that has publishers and scholars contesting the ethical ramifications of the phenomenon that has become known as “Chick Lit.”
The story is much more complex than the plagiaristic actions of a first-time author. Table 1. Source: Zhou, D. (2006). Chick Lit and Postfeminism - Stephanie Harzewski. Diane Meier: Chick Lit? Women's Literature? Why Not Just ... Literature? I am a fan of a website that delivers on the promise of acting as a kind of "concierge for the brain.
" And as such, it's called, Head Butler. I count on them to plow through the stacks of popular (and less popular) culture and separate the dross from the gold. More often than not, I follow the Butler's advice immediately. Amazon owes a debt to Jesse Kornbluth, the Butler, himself. I did just that with the back-to-back reviews of Alexandra Lebenthal's novel, "The Recessionistas" and Gail Caldwell's memoir, "Let's Take the Long Way Home. " No kidding, I thought. My first novel, "The Season of Second Chances," [To buy it from Amazon, click here. Except one: "My Chick Lit Loving Wife Hated This Book," read the headline. Okay, I wanted to respond, I'm sorry that you're disappointed, but it's like trying to blame a hot dog for not being ice cream.
What I didn't see was that the chick-lit argument had landed squarely on my doorstep. Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction. While most academics may not glance twice at “chick lit,” a few have come together to show why chick lit should receive literary and scholarly attention.
Editors Suzanne Ferriss, an English professor at Nova Southeastern University, and Mallory Young, a professor of English and French at Tarleton State University, have compiled fifteen essays from a range of professional academics who (with one exception) argue for the value of studying chick lit because of its sociological implications for women and its relationship in literary history to novels such as Pride and Prejudice. In the opening essay, Cris Mazza explains her creation of the term “chick lit” for the title of her post-feminist fiction anthology.
Published in 1995, the book draws together twenty-two stories by unknown female writers of fiction, which all deal with the issues of modern women humorously and lightheartedly. Chicklit Club's Top 10 - CHICK LIT CLICHES. What would chick lit be without its conventions and devices?
Those character types and stereotypes that appear in book after book. But are these cliches expected by fans or a real turnoff? Read on for the top 10 character cliches. Chick lit cliches: characters 1. And there's more. The+Lit+of+Chick+Lit. “The Great Chick Lit Conspiracy” - Kent Academic Repository. Loving with a vengeance: mass-produced fantasies for women - Tania Modleski - Google Books. Chick lit. Chicklit Club - Chick Lit reviews, news, author interviews, new releases, release dates and more.