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<div class="quote-block">Novelist Polly Courtney has dropped her publisher HarperCollins for giving her books "condescending and fluffy" covers aimed at the chick lit market.<br><br>
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"My writing has been shoehorned into a place that's not right for it," she said this morning. "It is commercial fiction, it is not literary, but the real issue I have is that it has been completely defined as women's fiction Yes it is page turning, no it's not War and Peace. But it shouldn't be portrayed as chick lit."<br><br>
It's a Man's World (given the tagline by Avon, "but it takes a woman to run it") is set in the world of lads' mags, following the story of Alexa Harris, asked to head up a magazine, Banter, with an all-male editorial team. Subjected to "light-hearted" misogyny in the office, Alexa also finds herself the victim of a hate campaign by women's rights activists.</div>
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- <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/15/novelist-ditches-publisher-book-launch" target="_blank">Full story</a>.<br><br>
I'm thinking about this, and I'm having a hard time coming up with a definition for "chick-lit" that isn't overly broad.<br><br>
Anyways, discuss.
<div class="quote-block">Novelist Polly Courtney has dropped her publisher HarperCollins for giving her books "condescending and fluffy" covers aimed at the chick lit market.<br><br>
[...]<br><br>
"My writing has been shoehorned into a place that's not right for it," she said this morning. "It is commercial fiction, it is not literary, but the real issue I have is that it has been completely defined as women's fiction Yes it is page turning, no it's not War and Peace. But it shouldn't be portrayed as chick lit."<br><br>
It's a Man's World (given the tagline by Avon, "but it takes a woman to run it") is set in the world of lads' mags, following the story of Alexa Harris, asked to head up a magazine, Banter, with an all-male editorial team. Subjected to "light-hearted" misogyny in the office, Alexa also finds herself the victim of a hate campaign by women's rights activists.</div>
</div>
<br>
- <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/15/novelist-ditches-publisher-book-launch" target="_blank">Full story</a>.<br><br>
I'm thinking about this, and I'm having a hard time coming up with a definition for "chick-lit" that isn't overly broad.<br><br>
Anyways, discuss.