Chick lit gets a bad rep, even if you try to class it up and call it "women's fiction." It's read by millions, has afforded Weiner two homes, yet the literary establishment, as it were, likes to ignore it, like an embarrassing relative at Thanksgiving dinner. I've gotten academic about chick lit before. Good for Weiner for talking about the way the genre is treated. (Hint: not every book written by a woman is about shopping and shoes.)
