Thursday, February 24, 2011

Cris Mazza

by Kathie Bergquist



Among Cris Mazza's many honors—starting with a 1984 PEN/Nelson Algren Award for her first novel, How to Leave a Country—is the dubious distinction of coining the term "chick-lit." She and Jeffrey DeShell invented it for their 1995 anthology, Chick-Lit: Post-Feminist Fiction.…

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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cris-mazza-literature-critics-choice/Content?oid=3307599

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