the future of fiction?
Daniel Harper
daniel_harper at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 21 18:15:51 CDT 2007
On a related note, did you ever look through the African American fiction
section of your local bookstore? It's all gangstas and thugs and pimps and
hos -- I'm not a member of the mentioned ethnic group, but if I was I'd be
insulted just walking past.
That these are pretty much all written by African-American authors only makes
it worse.
On Saturday 21 April 2007 11:44, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> I had exactly the same reaction: that it was chick-lit in disguise;
> chick-lit (and chick-flix) being an insidious form of sexism in typecasting
> women as people who are interested primarily in romance, domestic stuff,
> shop-'til-you-drop crap, etc. The publicity with Pessl chatting about food
> and her husband exactly played into that mentality.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> >From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> >
> >
> >I'd avoided the book after reading a very brief review because it
> >sounded like some kind of specialty variation on "chic-lit" (gag).
> >But a friend whose taste I generally trust recommended it so I'm now
> >about 1/3 through it. My first impression was correct. I'm going
> >to try to finish it but if it wasn't for my friend's recommendation I
> >wouldn't bother.
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