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After years of chick-lit for the skinny jeans and ridiculous heels set, we now have what I’ll dub Chunk-lit: chick-lit with fat heroines. Wally Lamb, what hast thou wrought? As a long time lover of fat-bottomed girls, but long time hater of chick-lit, I reserve judgement on this issue.
“Chick lit” has relied for years on repetitive plot lines with heroines who agonise about their weight as they swig chardonnay, smoke cigarettes and have sex with their boss.
But the latest publishing phenomenon to sweep America, which has just arrived over here, features a new heroine: the young woman who is seriously overweight – and doesn’t care.
“This is a completely new genre of chick lit and it’s a breath of fresh air,” said Mink Elliott, author of The Pi**ed Off Parents Club, which will be published next month by Little Brown. “These books are spearheading the revolution towards a more realistic perception of real women in easy-reading literature.
“Women are getting sick of the bullshit that has been perpetrated in chick lit until now. Bridget Jones, for all her agonising over her weight, was never heavier than nine-and-a-half stone, whereas the average weight of British women is well over 10 stone.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
This is nothing new – for many years I’ve been illustrating covers for a small publishing company in the US who specializes in romances & mysteries for BBW women, in fact, that’s the name of her publishing line: ‘BBW Books’. The author of one of the series I illustrated loved the character I drew for her so much, she had it tattooed on her back!! That’s taking the passion a tad too far, I think.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 am
So tired of manufactured fads!
See, you know how people complained that the term “chick-lit” was dismissive and insulting of a lot of women’s writing? “Chunk-lit”–way better.
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 am
Another trend on same subject, is the frock-fic. Double the skirts, half the substance. [above]
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Fat-bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round!
That is all.