boy-chik Yiddish word for a young man with more chutzpah than brains. It's all about male-centered comic fiction, in the manner of P.G. Wodehouse, Peter De Vries (godfather of boychik) and more recent masters of the genre, Erik Tarloff (The Man Who Wrote the Book) and Peter Lefcourt (The Woody). Here's a place for commentary on this evolving form. You can buy Gerald's books from Amazon.com, bn.com, or your favorite bookseller in paper or ebook.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Bonus Question: Origins of Chick Lit?
Does anyone know what's considered to be the first novel in the chick lit genre? It must have been before Sex and the City went on the air.
And don't say Pride and Prejudice, even though it meets all the core criteria of looking for "Mr. Right."
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The UK edition of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary was published in January of 1996. Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City appeared later that year, in August.
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The UK edition of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary was published in January of 1996. Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City appeared later that year, in August.
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