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Really good book. I love short stories, and am so happy with this purchase! I actually found one of these at our local resale shop and loved it so much that I bought this one for my 20 yr old niece for Xmas. She's an English major and had women's studies as her minor so she should love this.


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This Is Not Chick Lit Original Stories by America Best Women Writers Elizabeth Merrick 9780812975673 Books Reviews

Subtitled Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers

In her introduction, Elizabeth Merrick writes, "Chick lit as a genre presents one very narrow representation of women's lives." While not disparaging Chick Lit as a genre (she mentions writers she likes, including Jennifer Weiner, for example), Merrick proposes that there are a lot of great women writers today that do not fit exactly into that genre, that present varying and strong alternative representations of the varying and strong experiences women face in their lives.

The stories in this book range from funny to deadly serious to touching. A publicist that decides to represent a despotic general tries to make him likeable by putting him in a knitted hat. A woman contemplates her wedding night--and runs. Another woman volunteers at a shelter for women and children, and through the experience reflects upon her own loneliness and neuroses. A couple experiences their last moments together before terrorists crash their plane into one of the Twin Towers.

This book contains everything you'd expect from Chick Lit first dates, reflections on high school crushes, and relationships gone bad. But it is more inclusive and expansive than what is expected from the Chick Lit genre, with the thought-provoking, the touching and the downright quirky, driving the stories to places as deep and painful the lives of real women living in their thoughtful, touching and quirky real lives.

Armchair Interviews says Fantastic read!
Actually, this is chick lit. It's just the other side of the pendulum, where women authors feel the need to paint banal pictures of everyday life starring wooden characters with no personality to combat the fluffy bs that is known as chick lit. Just as tedious, though in a totally different way.
And you can paint thoughtful, moving portraits of regular people doing regular things. These just don't. They're like a Seinfeld episode in that they're stories about nothing. Except unlike Seinfeld, they lack humor or witty dialog or characters you give a damn about.
Women writing exceptionally well about things besides shopping and boyfriends are out there. These just aren't them.
Alice Walker. Isabel Allende. Barbara Kingsolver. Louise Eldritch. Jenny Lawson. Samantha Irby. *These* are them.
A diverse collection from some incredibly strong writers. Yes, they all happen to be women, and I understand that that's the point of this collection, but I don't care about their genders as much as I care about the sheer talent contained in this book.

This is one of the best collections I've read recently, right up there with The Best American Short Stories 2012 and Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. "Selling the General" was a re-read for me; I first encountered it in A Visit From the Goon Squad. I forget how good Jennifer Egan is until I read her again; she surprises me anew every time. "Love Machine" was fantastically twisted; "Embrace" was heart-stopping; and "The Epiphany Branch" was funny, politically incorrect, and touching. I loved the anachronistic "Joan, Jeanne, La Pucelle, Maid of Orléans" and couldn't get enough of "Gabriella, My Heart" -- it was like a novel crammed into twenty pages, in the best possible way. The only disappointment was that the last two stories were possibly the weakest, so the collection didn't end on a high note for me. That's not to say that the two final stories were bad, because they weren't; they just weren't as mind-blowing as the others.

All in all worth reading, worth owning, and opened my eyes to a bevy of amazing, read-more-by-her authors.
This was not any kind of lit. Just a bunch of junk compiled to make enough pages to print a book. Who edited this stuff. I'll give it to the used book store, and hope it hit's the 50 cent table. And I hope no one else tries to suffer through it like I tried, and suffer I did!
not that fun or interesting, I was expecting more meaningful stories and better writing. none of the stories really captivated me.
Good to have an anthology that lets us know we are going to read literary short stories. I'm reading it slowly for a discussion group. No futher opinions yet.
Really good book. I love short stories, and am so happy with this purchase! I actually found one of these at our local resale shop and loved it so much that I bought this one for my 20 yr old niece for Xmas. She's an English major and had women's studies as her minor so she should love this.