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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, dive into Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn's new satirical novel about Momzillas in Brooklyn.
Summer's Top Chick Lit Reads
Marisa Meltzer is coauthor of How Sassy Changed My Life. Her next book Girl Power will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in February.
This year's big beach books-Twenties Girl, Best Friends Forever, The Wedding Girl, and Hope in a Jar-feature dark subplots, gossip, and romance with men who could be played by Colin Firth.
Thriller Lovers' Guilty Pleasure
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
Critics say Janet Evanovich's novels are low-brow, formulaic chick lit with a lurid crime twist, not worth a second glance. So why can't I stop reading them?
A Gossip Girl Tells All
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Paula Froelich's debut novel, Mercury in Retrograde, is a Sex and the City tale about New York women that reads like one big blind item on Page Six (where she's the deputy editor).
Chick Lit for the Smart Set
Caryn James is a cultural critic for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Marie Claire and The New York Times Book Review. She was a film critic, chief television critic and critic-at-large for The New York Times, and an editor at the Times Book Review. She is the author of the novels Glorie and What Caroline Knew. As a film commentator, she has been a guest on Charlie Rose, Today, CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC.
Kate Christensen's new novel, Trouble, is a pitch-perfect look at female friendships and the potent sexual desires of women over 40. By Caryn James.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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