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Chick lit is the Rodney Dangerfield of fiction; no matter how hard its proponents argue its popular appeal or hitch its literary merits to Jane Austen’s high-falutin’ skirts, it gets no respect, at least among the bespectacled, Brooklyn-residing hipster set who prefer novels by young male authors whose first name is Jonathan. Like the old chicken and egg argument, the chick lit debate will probably never be resolved. In the meantime, the battle continues with the recent salvo launched by editor Elizabeth Merrick’s anthology This Is Not Chick Lit. Note the snobby subtitle: Original Stories by America’s Best Women Writers, implying that the contributing authors to the responding volume edited by Lauren Baratz-Logstead, This Is Chick Lit, are talentless hacks. (This reminds me of one of my all-time favorite teen flics, Mean Girls, with Merrick and her ilk as the screen villainesses). While I would prefer to this debate to be resolved with a mud-wrestling competition at Madison Square Garden, Booklust blogger and cartoonist Patricia Storms’s latest “Art Imitating Lit” strip offers her own hiliarious take on the literary controversy: “The Stepford Jonathans”. Enjoy!–Wilda Williams
Hey! Some of the best contributors to THIS IS CHICK-LIT hail from Brooklyn! Of course, none of them are named Jonathan.
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