December 2005: Selected "Chick Lit"

Post date: Jan 07, 2010 8:29:58 PM

"Is chick lit the latest trend in women's fiction, too light to be taken seriously? Or is it striking a meaningful chord with female readers?"

Inspired by the article in the Smith Alumnae Quarterly (available online at http://saqonline.smith.edu/article.epl?issue_id=11&article_id=903) we read one or more of these titles to figure out just what chick lit is:

• • I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson

  • The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

  • The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

  • The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

In from the rain on Thursday, December 1, 2005 at Maggie's house, we debated the merits of this "new genre" of Chick Lit that made the cover story of the recent SAQ and raised the ire of the literati.