Have vampires sucked the blood out of chick lit? Remember when beachin’ it meant toting along “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Good in Bed,” “Confessions of a Shop-aholic” or anything by Candace Bushnell?

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Or does the genre just have a massive hangover? Ten years ago, bookstores were stacked with bright pink covers sporting illustrations of boppy urban singles. In these novels, pals often shared ...

Is chick lit dead? Less than a decade after commentators clucked at bookstore shelves lined with cartoon high-heels and pink cocktail glasses, the only debate that the once-flourishing genre inspires ...

A week ago, Salon.com published an interview with the novelist Jeffrey Eugenides titled, “Jeffrey Eugenides: I don’t know why Jodi Picoult is belly-aching.” Eugenides was asked a question about gender ...

Defending the much-maligned genre, recently dealt a slap with the Elizabeth Merrick-edited collection This is Not Chick Lit, author and former PW reviewer Baratz-Logsted has produced a comeback ...