The parents of Kaavya Viswanathan — the former Harvard undergrad whose literary career was cut short after her first novel was discovered to be partially plagiarized — died early this morning when their small plane crashed at Rickenbacker International Airport in central Ohio.
Amy Sohn's new book sure does have some some hot dish: Sean Penn's bad in bed, Robert Downey Jr. cheats, and Kate Hudson is an evil bitch... in her mind. The celebs don't care, but the New York Post does!
Bookslut points out the latest trend for the covers of chick-lit books: girls with no heads. On one hand, we can understand obscuring the faces—it's less specific and makes the female protagonist easier to project oneself onto. (It's probably been focus-grouped to death.) On the other hand—they look weird when put all…
Radar gives classic works of literature cheeky chick-lit makeovers. Theirs are made-up, but the trend is real: "Last January, fans of literary lioness Alice Munro were shocked to discover that The View From Castle Rock had undergone a girly redesign. Classics like Lolita and Madame Bovary have endured similar…
Chick lit queen Jennifer Weiner's husband promotes her new book in an email sent around his law firm. Sometimes being married sounds nice! [Philebrity]
Some days we wonder who Gigi Levangie Grazer is. Besides the sassy lass with great hair. Besides the wife of mega-producer Brian Grazer. Besides the writer of senseless soapy chicky-chick books. Who is she—on the inside?
We so wanted to dislike debut novelist Katherine Taylor. Rules For Saying Goodbye was hyped as "invoking the spirit of Melissa Bank and Curtis Sittenfeld" in the announcement that it had sold to FSG, and it's rumored to be Starbucks' next pick. Oh, and: "It's hard, when you're blond and attractive and you live in…
We think Elizabeth Merrick, who we made fun of for coming out against stiletto-loving chick lit authors and then holding a book party for her Not Chick Lit anthology at a purse store, has mulitple personalities. On the one hand, she's all 'mature and rational defense of fancy Literature against the dumb bitches who…
Elizabeth Merrick's This Is Not Chick Lit anthology has been kicking up bloggy controversy since the deal was first announced on Publisher's Marketplace. Then Merrick fanned the flames with an outspoken defense of her decision to marginalize an entire ill-defined genre of female writers, who she accused of writing…
