Jason Pinter: Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive
A while back, the NYTBR ran a review by Mark Sarvas in which he asserted that there are very few novels written about work (note: here is the review Weiner refers to). Well, as even the most casual chick-lit reader knows, work is one of the great subjects of all of those single (or married) girls in the city novels. The Devil Wears Prada, I Don't Know How She Does It, Piece of Work, Make Him Look Good, Lily White, Free Food for Millionaires...all books about women in the workplace. But because they're women's work - commercial books by women, about women - Sarvas, presumably, had never read or even heard of them, and there was no one at the Times to say, "Hey, actually, fella, there are lots of books about work," because, I'm guessing, no one at the Times had read them or heard of them, either.
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