Love Food?

 
Can’t help but shouting out a friend and her marvelous, inventive cooking!  Since we read about food in our Chick Lit novels, how about learning about some deliciousness in real life!  Check this out!
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/fooddrink/s_562962.html

chick lit: analyzed

This week we decided to read a book analyzing chick lilt:  Chick Lit:  The New Woman’s Fiction edited by Suzanne Ferress and Mallory Young.  I chose to read chapter 2, “Tradition and Displacement in the New Novel of Manners”.  I wanted to get an idea about the history of what I thought was a very [...]

Coining the Phrase

 
This week I chose to read the essay “Who’s Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre” by Cris Mazza from Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young’s compilation.  In it, Mazza talks about the origin of the phrase Chick Lit with reference to its ever changing (and in her mind, [...]

Response to NY Mag Post-Fem Article

“The past few months have been like an extended consciousness-raising session” – Amanda Fortini
This quote from this week’s New York Magazine’s article titled “The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the fourth wave” iterated a feeling that I have been having since my friends burst into my room and asked me to do this chick lit [...]

Selling “Chick Lit”

The introduction to the work of Chick Lit criticism we are reading for this week introduced me to an idea I hadn’t thought about in conjunction with chick lit before; that these books are connected with marketing, commercialization and branding.
Before reading this book I had not considered the commercial aspects of Chick Lit, but thinking [...]

From Little Women to Gossip Girl

Hey everyone, so like the other girls, this week I read essays from Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young’s compilation, Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction.  I chose to read, “Chick Lit Jr.: More Than Glitz and Glamour for Teens and Tweens” by Joanna Webb Johnson.
          I am one of the bloggers in the group [...]

For Cesar Calva

While writing on this blog, I am often excited by its public nature. The internet is a miraculous thing, a forum where my thoughts can be cast out into the world, never knowing who they will stumble upon. But at the same time it is frightening, that one’s own opinions and writing can be evaluated [...]

Going global…

An article in the New York Times from last year talks about how female writers around the world have started writing chick lit. Women in places such as India, Finland and Italy have started writing books for women.
This seems like good news to me, but I am taken aback that the writer of the article [...]

You say you want a Revolution…

Why do I hate the word Feminist?
I am a woman, I care about women’s issues, yet somehow history has made “Feminist” a dirty word and one that I am reluctant to identify with. I asked some men in my life what they thought of when they heard the word “Feminist” and their responses were all [...]

A Good Man Is Hard to Buy

I love chicklit, Lifetime, pink and all things girly– secret: i’ve stumbled upon many an alpha male in their dorm rooms watching a Lifetime drama–, so it was no surprise to me that I found the inspiration for this post while I was browsing through the Oxygen network’s website and stumbled upon the promo for [...]