Comments on: “It’s not chick lit” – Cecilia Ahern at Mrs. Whippy photocall http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/ craic from ireland Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:54:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: aj@lecraic http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/comment-page-1/#comment-2699 aj@lecraic Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:11:22 +0000 http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/#comment-2699 I don't see it as being dismissive. When I say "stop writing about ice cream..." - that's my advice to someone who has a problem with the label. As I said, if something gives pleasure, that is what matters. I don’t see it as being dismissive. When I say “stop writing about ice cream…” – that’s my advice to someone who has a problem with the label. As I said, if something gives pleasure, that is what matters.

]]> By: roost http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/comment-page-1/#comment-2670 roost Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:13:55 +0000 http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/#comment-2670 I dunno...I can kind of see her point. It is a bit of a disparaging label, and you confirm that by saying: <i>If you don’t want it to be labelled that way, stop writing about ice cream, maltesers, bad hair days and GHD’s. </i> So you do admit it is a dismissive way of labelling that genre, so she, as a practitioner of that craft is perfectly allowed to say, no, don't call it that. The Question i would ask is, if you are OK with chick-lit, why can't you be OK with women's fiction? I dunno…I can kind of see her point. It is a bit of a disparaging label, and you confirm that by saying:

If you don’t want it to be labelled that way, stop writing about ice cream, maltesers, bad hair days and GHD’s.

So you do admit it is a dismissive way of labelling that genre, so she, as a practitioner of that craft is perfectly allowed to say, no, don’t call it that.

The Question i would ask is, if you are OK with chick-lit, why can’t you be OK with women’s fiction?

]]> By: B'dum http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/comment-page-1/#comment-2446 B'dum Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:14:02 +0000 http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/#comment-2446 If I were Bertie's daughter I'd get published too. Shame I'm Cowen's daughter instead. If I were Bertie’s daughter I’d get published too.

Shame I’m Cowen’s daughter instead.

]]> By: emordino http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/comment-page-1/#comment-2381 emordino Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:35:44 +0000 http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/#comment-2381 Labels like "women's fiction" are invented to get away from the negative connotations of previous labels, then they in turn are adopted by shit writers and necessitate yet another label being invented. And so on. As you say, it's nonsense. I can see where it comes from though... the sheer amount of awful, stereotypical rubbish churned out by people like Ahern gives a bad image to female writers who deal with contemporary life. For instance, <i>Sex and the City</i> bears a fair amount of similarity to, say, Jay McInerney's <i>Bright Lights, Big City</i>, which is a book I love... but I still felt faintly embarassed when I went to buy <i>Sex and the City</i>. If I'm honest the only thing that gave me the courage to do it was Bret Easton Ellis's endorsement on the cover. I mean, it must be all right if a well-regarded male author likes it, right? Labels like “women’s fiction” are invented to get away from the negative connotations of previous labels, then they in turn are adopted by shit writers and necessitate yet another label being invented. And so on.

As you say, it’s nonsense. I can see where it comes from though… the sheer amount of awful, stereotypical rubbish churned out by people like Ahern gives a bad image to female writers who deal with contemporary life. For instance, Sex and the City bears a fair amount of similarity to, say, Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City, which is a book I love… but I still felt faintly embarassed when I went to buy Sex and the City. If I’m honest the only thing that gave me the courage to do it was Bret Easton Ellis’s endorsement on the cover. I mean, it must be all right if a well-regarded male author likes it, right?

]]> By: Ursula http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/comment-page-1/#comment-2354 Ursula Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:11:30 +0000 http://www.lecraic.com/2008/09/18/its-not-chick-lit-cecilia-ahern-at-mrs-whippy-photocall/#comment-2354 AJ, it's not the first time I feel like kissing you. You said it, and there is little to add. U AJ, it’s not the first time I feel like kissing you. You said it, and there is little to add.

U

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