Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Read any guy's lit lately?

Just read a great piece by NPR's Linda Holmes. The title of the column is "Women are not Marshmallow Peeps, and other reasons there's no 'chick lit.'" The best line, IMHO, is this:
But at this point, I think the only solution is to stay away from the term "chick lit" as much as humanly possible, because it's become a term that means "by and about women, and not something you need to take seriously...."
And her other great point: Why don't we categorize books about men as "guy's lit"? Just something to ponder.

1 comment:

Rosemary said...

Laura Lippman also has an interesting response to this on her blog today: http://www.journalscape.com/LauraLippman/2010-08-25-08:17/