This is not chick lit : original stories by America's best women writers /

This is not chick lit : original stories by America's best women writers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Merrick, Elizabeth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2006]
Subjects:
American fiction > Women authors.
Women > United States > Fiction.
American fiction > 21st century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why chick lit matters / Elizabeth Merrick
  • The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Two days / Aimee Bender
  • An open letter to Doctor X / Francine Prose
  • Gabe / Holiday Reinhorn
  • Documents of passion love / Carolyn Ferrell
  • Volunteers are shining stars / Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Selling the General / Jennifer Egan
  • The seventy-two ounce steak challenge / Dika Lam
  • Love machine / Samantha Hunt
  • Ava Bean / Jennifer S. Davis
  • Embrace / Roxana Robinson
  • The epiphany branch / Mary Gordon
  • Joan, Jeanne, La Pucelle, Maid of Orléans / Judy Budnitz
  • Gabriella, my heart / Cristina Henríquez
  • The red coat / Caitlin Macy
  • The Matthew effect / Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • The recipe / Lynne Tillman
  • Meaning of ends / Martha Witt.