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  • In naming Peabody "Best Literary Personage of 2008," the Washington City Paper wrote that Gargoyle which Peabody and co-editor Lucinda Ebersole brought back in 1997 has published "many of contemporary lit's better-known authors, from former poet laureate Rita Dove, locals-done-good Richard McCann and Mary Kay Zuravleff, and current lit luminaries like Julia Alvarez, John McNally, and Jennifer Egan."

    Main Character: Richard Peabody has devoted his life to Washington's writers. At what cost? Lora Engdahl 2011

  • May 20th, 2008 11: 05 pm ET now primry voti'n git'n over. lit's git go to jerry spangler. he'll setle the winner.

    Obama, Clinton supporters both say Clinton attacking unfairly 2008

  • I think I've grown out of chick lit for chick lit's sake, finally!

    Review: Girls in Trucks tinylittlelibrarian 2008

  • Maybe I need to hurry up and have a baby so I can start relating to chick lit's older sister, mommy lit.

    Review: Fashionably Late tinylittlelibrarian 2008

  • Maybe I need to hurry up and have a baby so I can start relating to chick lit's older sister, mommy lit.

    Archive 2008-12-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2008

  • Merrick believes that chick lit's popularity is the reason that more "literary" women writers do not get published, and that when they do, their books get less attention than more commercial fare.

    Rachel Pine: THIS IS CHICK LIT: Sick Of Being Kicked Around 2008

  • The distinction that Sittenfeld drew in her infamous (yet reasonable and intelligent) review between literature and chick lit is that chick lit's appeal depends on identification but literature's appeal depends (at least partly) on empathy.

    Archive 2007-03-01 N A 2007

  • Some fifteen-ish minutes after the news broke of five Labour councillors in Ealing Southall defecting to the Conservatives, along with an Independent candidate standing down and joining Tony lit's teams they put out a release sayingThe Labour and Conservative campaigns in the Ealing Southall by-election are both descending in to chaos.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • She is one of chick lit's brightest lights, and here she delivers a funny, utterly winning story of family, love and self-discovery.

    Joel N Ross: Double Cross Blind Michael Allen 2005

  • Meet chick lit's sauciest, sassiest new heroine...

    Archive 2000-01-01 Karyn 2000

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