{"id":615,"date":"2006-08-12T06:52:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T11:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=615"},"modified":"2020-01-03T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T15:07:02","slug":"lit-fight-lit-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/lit-fight-lit-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Lit fight! Lit fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Fgs0dZ\">Lauren Baratz-Logsted<\/a>, The Huffington Post has published two bits by Rachel Sklar on the dueling anthologies <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MT0C9T\">This is Not Chick Lit<\/a> <\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37z7G3v\">This is Chick Lit<\/a><\/em>. Baratz-Logsted has a piece in the latter.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/this-blog-post-is-not-chi_b_26959\">&#8220;not chick lit&#8221; HuffPo piece is here<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/this-is-chick-lit-sick-of_b_26668\">&#8220;is chick lit&#8221; piece is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t had a peek at this debate, the second post in particular will catch you up nicely. Hint: the divide is deep, and writers who think the genre is beneath them really, really hate it.<\/p>\n<p>(And in case you didn&#8217;t catch this when <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/more-on-literary-vs-popular-novels\/\">I first linked it<\/a> a couple months ago, see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2blowhards.com\/archives\/2006\/06\/richard_wheeler_2.html#002987\">this post at 2Blowhards<\/a>: a transcription of a talk by writer Richard Wheeler on the divide between literary and genre fiction.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via novelist Lauren Baratz-Logsted, The Huffington Post has published two bits by Rachel Sklar on the dueling anthologies This is Not Chick Lit and This is Chick Lit. Baratz-Logsted has a piece in the latter. The &#8220;not chick lit&#8221; HuffPo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/lit-fight-lit-fight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-books","category-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6023,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}