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If you love Taylor Jenkins Reid...

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...then read these. And ponder how the terms 'rom com' and 'chick lit' diminish books written by women

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Once upon a time, I was cooking supper whilst listening to Front Row. The great Saint Marian of Keyes was being interviewed, and delivering a hammer blow to the denigration inherent in the term ‘chick lit’. (See also: ‘rom com’ a term which in itself is diminished.)

Why is it, she demanded (and I paraphrase here), that when men write about emotions, they…

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