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It’s easy to relegate Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s beloved story of the March sisters, to the fourth-grade-chick-lit shelf along with Laura Ingalls Wilder and The Baby Sitters’ Club. But 16 Harvard students and one history professor are singing Little Women’s merits as an informative and unique historical work...
...know how you can think that you’re really funny, so you go up to a hot chick and tell a joke and she’s not into you at all? You realize, ‘I’m not funny at all. I’m a big dork.’ [Mather] is like the dork, and we’re like the hot chick. That’s the level we want to bring it to,” Prats said. “In the end, there is no Mather-Kirkland...
...chicks have chick lit, what do guys have? There's a clever answer out there--which unfortunately is just the other side of printable in a family magazine--but it is a serious question. So-called chick-lit authors like Helen Fielding and Candace Bushnell are writing smart, incisive, funny-as-hell books about what it's like to be a woman in the current romantic marketplace. Shouldn't a few guys step up and do the same? A few guys besides Nick Hornby, that...
...tough part about writing boy books, as we may as well call them (hey, chick lit doesn't rhyme either), is that a lot of guys just aren't all that complicated. Such a man is David, the 27-year-old protagonist of Scott Mebus' Booty Nomad (Miramax Books; 392 pages). David is a TV producer struggling to bounce back from a horrific breakup with a woman he can bring himself to refer to only as the Eater of Souls. Like Tom, David gets plastered, visits a strip club, hits on his female friends and longs for an unattainable lady...
...course, Bridget Jones isn't the only flavor of chick lit around. Though it's non-fiction, Harry Stein's The Girl Watchers Club (HarperCollins; 315 pages) takes its cues from Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: it celebrates the folksy wisdom of an older generation of men. The Girl Watchers Club is an informal cabal of men in their 70s and 80s who meet once a week to prowl yard sales and grouse about things "these days." These are men who grew up in the Depression and came...