{"product_id":"this-is-not-chick-lit-original-stories-by-americas-best-women-writers-9780812975673","title":"This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers","description":"Chick lit: A genre of fiction that often recycles the following plot: Girl in big city desperately searches for Mr. Right in between dieting and shopping for shoes. Girl gets dumped (sometimes repeatedly). Girl finds Prince Charming. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not Chick Lit \u003c\/i\u003eis a celebration of America's most dynamic literary voices, as well as a much needed reminder that, for every stock protagonist with a designer handbag and three boyfriends, there is a woman writer pushing the envelope of literary fiction with imagination, humor, and depth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The original short stories in this collection touch on some of the same themes as chick lit-the search for love and identity-but they do so with extraordinary power, creativity, and range; they are also political, provocative, and, at turns, utterly surprising. Featuring marquee names as well as burgeoning talents, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not Chick Lit \u003c\/i\u003ewill nourish your heart, and your mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluding these original stories: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The Thing Around Your Neck\" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003cbr\u003e \"Two Days\" by Aimee Bender\u003cbr\u003e \"An Open Letter to Doctor X\" by Francine Prose\u003cbr\u003e \"Gabe\" by Holiday Reinhorn\u003cbr\u003e \"Documents of Passion Love\" by Carolyn Ferrell\u003cbr\u003e \"Volunteers Are Shining Stars\" by Curtis Sittenfeld\u003cbr\u003e \"Selling the General\" by Jennifer Egan\u003cbr\u003e \"The Seventy-two-Ounce Steak Challenge\" by Dika Lam\u003cbr\u003e \"Love Machine\" by Samantha Hunt\u003cbr\u003e \"Ava Bean\" by Jennifer S. Davis\u003cbr\u003e \"Embrace\" by Roxana Robinson\u003cbr\u003e \"The Epiphany Branch\" by Mary Gordon\u003cbr\u003e \"Joan, Jeanne, La Pucelle, Maid of Orléans\" by Judy Budnitz\u003cbr\u003e \"Gabriella, My Heart\" by Cristina Henríquez\u003cbr\u003e \"The Red Coat\" by Caitlin Macy\u003cbr\u003e \"The Matthew Effect\" by Binnie Kirshenbaum\u003cbr\u003e \"The Recipe\" by Lynne Tillman\u003cbr\u003e \"Meaning of Ends\" by Martha Witt \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not Chick Lit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThis Is Not Chick Lit\u003c\/i\u003e is important not only for its content, but for its title. I'll know we're getting somewhere when equally talented male writers feel they have to separate themselves from the endless stream of fiction glorifying war, hunting and sports by naming an anthology This Is Not a Guy Thing.\"\u003cb\u003e--Gloria Steinem\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"These voices, diverse and almost eerily resonant, offer us a refreshing breath of womanhood-untamed, ungroomed, and unglossed.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Merrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812975673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2006 pg. 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Nigeria. Her first novel, \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePurple Hibiscus, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the\u003cbr\u003eHurston\/Wright Legacy Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and\u003cbr\u003ethe John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker. Her short\u003cbr\u003efiction has won the 2003 O. Henry Prize and has appeared in various literary\u003cbr\u003epublications, including \u003ci\u003eGranta \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eIowa Review. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is a\u003cbr\u003e2005\/2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and divides her time\u003cbr\u003ebetween the United States and Nigeria. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eHalf of a Yellow\u003cbr\u003eSun, \u003c\/i\u003ewill be published in September 2006. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAimee Bender\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three books, most recently the story collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWillful Creatures. \u003c\/i\u003eHer short fiction has been published in\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGranta, GQ, Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publica-\u003cbr\u003etions and has been heard on Public Radio International's \u003ci\u003eThis American\u003cbr\u003eLife. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudy Budnitz\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Harper's, Story, \u003cbr\u003eThe Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eOxford American, Glimmer Train, Fence, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize, and her debut\u003cbr\u003ecollection, \u003ci\u003eFlying Leap, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book in 1998.\u003cbr\u003eBudnitz is also the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eIf I Told You Once, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the\u003cbr\u003eEdward Lewis Wallant Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in\u003cbr\u003eBritain. Her most recent book is the collection \u003ci\u003eNice Big American Baby.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in San Francisco. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer S. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHer Kind of Want, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the\u003cbr\u003e2002 Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction has appeared in such\u003cbr\u003emagazines as the \u003ci\u003eOxford American, The Paris Review, Grand Street, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Story. \u003c\/i\u003eHer new collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eOur Former Lives in Art, \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis forthcoming from Random House in spring 2007. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Egan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Circus \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLook at Me, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001, \u003cbr\u003eand a short-story collection, \u003ci\u003eEmerald City. \u003c\/i\u003eHer short stories have appeared\u003cbr\u003ein \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Harper's, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other\u003cbr\u003epublications. Also a journalist, she writes frequently for \u003ci\u003eThe New York\u003cbr\u003eTimes Magazine. \u003c\/i\u003eHer new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Keep, \u003c\/i\u003ewill be published in August\u003cbr\u003e2006. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarolyn Ferrell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the short-story collection \u003ci\u003eDon't\u003cbr\u003eErase Me, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the\u003cbr\u003eJohn C. Zacharis First Book Award, given by \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/i\u003eand the New\u003cbr\u003eVoices Award from Quality Paperback Book Club. Her stories have been\u003cbr\u003epublished in several anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003cbr\u003eof the Century, \u003c\/i\u003eedited by John Updike, and \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Night: \u003cbr\u003eThe Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present, \u003c\/i\u003eedited by\u003cbr\u003eGloria Naylor. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, \u003cbr\u003eFerrell teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in the Bronx\u003cbr\u003ewith her husband and two children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e's novels include \u003ci\u003ePearl, Spending, The Company of\u003cbr\u003eWomen, The Rest of Life, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of the\u003cbr\u003ememoir \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow Man, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other works of nonfiction. She has received\u003cbr\u003ea Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, \u003cbr\u003eand the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story. She teaches at Barnard College\u003cbr\u003eand lives in New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCristina Henríquez\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the short-story collection \u003ci\u003eCome\u003cbr\u003eTogether, Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, \u003cbr\u003eand her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Ploughshares, Glimmer\u003cbr\u003eTrain, TriQuarterly, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAGNI. \u003c\/i\u003eShe was featured in \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly\u003cbr\u003eReview \u003c\/i\u003eas one of \"Fiction's New Luminaries.\" She lives in Dallas with\u003cbr\u003eher husband. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamantha Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and artist from New York. She is the author\u003cbr\u003eof \u003ci\u003eThe Seas \u003c\/i\u003eand the forthcoming novel \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Everything Else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHer stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, McSweeney's, Cabinet, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeed Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand have been heard on Public Radio International's \u003ci\u003eThis\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Life. \u003c\/i\u003eHunt teaches writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinnie Kirshenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two story collections, \u003ci\u003eMarried\u003cbr\u003eLife \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHistory on a Personal Note, \u003c\/i\u003eand five novels, \u003ci\u003eOn Mermaid\u003cbr\u003eAvenue, Pure Poetry, A Disturbance in One Place, Hester Among the\u003cbr\u003eRuins, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAn Almost Perfect Moment. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is a professor at Columbia\u003cbr\u003eUniversity, Graduate School of the Arts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDika Lam\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Canada and lives in Brooklyn. She was a New\u003cbr\u003eYork Times Fellow in the MFA program at New York University, and her\u003cbr\u003ework has appeared in \u003ci\u003eScribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999, Story, \u003cbr\u003eOne Story, \u003c\/i\u003eFailbetter.com, and elsewhere. The first chapter of her novel-in-\u003cbr\u003eprogress won the 2005 Bronx Writers' Center Chapter One contest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaitlin Macy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Fundamentals of Play \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cbr\u003eis at work on a collection of short stories. Her short fiction has appeared\u003cbr\u003ein \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand she is the recipient of a 2005 O. Henry Prize. She\u003cbr\u003elives with her family in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancine Prose\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including, \u003cbr\u003emost recently, \u003ci\u003eA Changed Man \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlue Angel, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for\u003cbr\u003ethe National Book Award. Her nonfiction includes the national bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCaravaggio: Painter of Miracles. \u003c\/i\u003eHer next book, \u003ci\u003eReading Like a\u003cbr\u003eWriter, \u003c\/i\u003ewill be out in summer 2006 from HarperCollins. A recipient of\u003cbr\u003enumerous grants and awards, among them Guggenheim and Fulbright\u003cbr\u003efellowships, Prose was a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and\u003cbr\u003eWriters at the New York Public Library. She lives in New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoliday Reinhorn\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Los Angeles. Her debut collection of short\u003cbr\u003estories, \u003ci\u003eBig Cats, \u003c\/i\u003ewas named one of the best books of 2005 by the \u003ci\u003eSan\u003cbr\u003eFrancisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eand a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Creative Writing\u003cbr\u003eInstitute at the University of Wisconsin\/Madison. Reinhorn's stories\u003cbr\u003ehave appeared in \u003ci\u003eZoetrope, Tin House, Ploughshares, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eColumbia, \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications. She is currently at work on a novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoxana Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books: three novels, three\u003cbr\u003eshort-story collections, and a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Her most\u003cbr\u003erecent book is the collection \u003ci\u003eA Perfect Stranger. \u003c\/i\u003eRobinson was named a\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Lion by the New York Public Library and has received fellowships\u003cbr\u003efrom the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim\u003cbr\u003eFoundation. Four of her books were named Notable Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eby \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times. \u003c\/i\u003eHer work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The\u003cbr\u003eAtlantic, Harper's, One Story, Daedalus, Best American Short Stories, \u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She lives in New York City and\u003cbr\u003eteaches at the New School. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCurtis Sittenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e's first novel, \u003ci\u003ePrep, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a national bestseller. Chosen\u003cbr\u003eas one of the Ten Best Books of 2005 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eit will\u003cbr\u003ebe published in twenty-three foreign countries, and its film rights have\u003cbr\u003ebeen optioned by Paramount Pictures. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Man of\u003cbr\u003eMy Dreams, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published by Random House in May 2006. Sittenfeld's\u003cbr\u003enonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Allure, \u003cbr\u003eGlamour, \u003c\/i\u003eand on Public Radio International's \u003ci\u003eThis American Life.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne Tillman\u003c\/b\u003e's last novel, \u003ci\u003eNo Lease on Life, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the National\u003cbr\u003eBook Critics Circle Award for fiction and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable\u003cbr\u003eBook of the Year. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not It, \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of\u003cbr\u003estories and novellas. Her new novel \u003ci\u003eAmerican Genius: A Comedy \u003c\/i\u003ewill be\u003cbr\u003epublished by Soft Skull Press in October 2006. Tillman is a fellow of the\u003cbr\u003eNew York Institute of the Humanities and a recent recipient of a\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Fellowship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Witt\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eBroken as Things Are. \u003c\/i\u003eHer short\u003cbr\u003efiction and translations are included in the anthologies \u003ci\u003ePost-War Italian\u003cbr\u003eWomen Writers \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Literature of Tomorrow. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is a recipient of\u003cbr\u003ea Thomas J. Watson Traveling Fellowship, a Spencer Fellowship, a\u003cbr\u003eWalter E. Dakin Fellowship, and a New York Times Fellowship, as well\u003cbr\u003eas residencies at the Yaddo and Ragdale artist colonies. Originally from\u003cbr\u003eHillsborough, North Carolina, she now lives in New York City with her\u003cbr\u003ehusband and two children\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43969214152819,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_2296f5d3-e7a1-4c4c-8bc0-a36aeaabc890.jpg?v=1760304541","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/this-is-not-chick-lit-original-stories-by-americas-best-women-writers-9780812975673","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}