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 “not chick lit” HuffPo piece is here. The “is chick lit” piece is here.
If you haven’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.
(And in case you didn’t catch this when I first linked it a couple months ago, see also this post at 2Blowhards: a transcription of a talk by writer Richard Wheeler on the divide between literary and genre fiction.)
Someone has an archangel Michael complex, methinks.
LOL
Thanks for covering us! FYI, it’s Rachel Pine who has a piece in This Is Chick-Lit. Rachel Sklaar introduced Rachel Pine’s comments, as well as Elizabeth Merrick’s, in the HuffPo. Rachel, Rachel, Rachel, I know – we have a plethora of Rachels! :)
Ooops!
Correcting now in the post!!!
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