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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!In the economically happy Clintonite 1990s, a distinctive sort of genre fiction called chick lit surged across the land, topping bestseller lists and inspiring TV shows and films. It has yet to fade one bit. Chick lit, a term that came to define a genre led by Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones" in 1996, celebrates modern women in humorous and lighthearted eye-candy prose as professionally successful or inventive, youngish, independent, sexually avaricious, shopaholic, nipped-and-tucked, trendsetter, sexy and perky and totally self-involved. In other words, look at Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the ...
For the hundreds of thousands of single women who live in or out of the fantasy land of Carrie Bradshaw's New York in "Sex and the City," this news can't come as a surprise. New York is paradise – for men. Now here comes the men's Web site, AskMen.com, with its buzz-driven annual list of the world's 29 most male-friendly cities. Do you need to guess? The Big Apple ranks No. 1, upsetting poor Chicago, last year's top of the world. After New York, it's the deluge, so to speak. You've got to go all the way across the world, across the Pacific Ocean, to Melbourne, Australia, and to Tokyo, ...
On Saturday night, I had a first date with a guy who told me that he had read a bunch of my columns, and that I'm a very funny writer. Nice compliment. He then said that he laughed hardest at my column on eHarmony, which is about my wanting to get married and being rejected by the online dating site. Gulp. He also asked if anything he said would end up in one of my stories. I said everyone in my life gets quoted at some point or another (my poor dad is still getting questions about a goats and cows dowry in his back yard in Baltimore.) Then I got to thinking, why does my fictional ...
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