The author who famously moved to a sun-drenched European villa recollects her childhood in the American South.
The term “chick lit” makes me want to burn a bra, with its demeaning label and insinuation that literature written for and about women must be (so sloppily) qualified as its own genre. Nevertheless, there’s no denying a type of book exists that stars plucky female characters navigating the dangerous straits of modern life, while […]