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	<title><![CDATA[THIS IS CHICK LIT: Sick Of Being Kicked Around]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-pine/this-is-chick-lit-sick-of_b_26668.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/ThisisChickLit_1933771011_lores.jpg"><img alt="ThisisChickLit_1933771011_lores.jpg" src="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/ThisisChickLit_1933771011_lores-thumb.jpg" width="120" height="180" align="left" hspace="5"/></a>Last weekend I read "This is Not Chick Lit, Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers," edited by Elizabeth Merrick. As a contributor to <A HREF= http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&amp;isbn=1933771011&amp;itm=3 >"This is Chick-Lit,"</A> an anthology that was conceived as a response to that book, I was looking forward to reading it.</p>

<p>The stories in "This is Not Chick Lit" are definitely not chick lit; rather self-consciously so. As to whether or not the authors whose work appears...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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