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(For the true lit-hist-myst buff, to reread "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" or "The Moonstone" directly after "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher" is akin to having an epiphany).
One reason is that true crowdsourced lit tends to produce a fairly unreadable mess.
It's become a cliché to bemoan the tedium of the genre, but it's true that chick lit works only if there's a payoff for slogging through all the brand names and celebrity venues.
I'm not sure it's true that the Alt Lit community nurtured his talent and allowed him to rise from it.
There is a certain strand of historical fiction of which this is certainly true; it is chick-lit with wimples".
But Ms. Kennedy's name continued to be included on the small list of writers whose work, which took the tried-and-true genre of chick lit and gave it a specifically black focus, was the logical heir to the novelist Terry McMillan's.
But here, handed to us on a brightly lit court, was Tipsarević, a true underdog playing the match of his life.
True, BBC4 aired the Melbourne-set hit-lit adaptation The Slap in 2011, but that's about it for grown-up small-screen drama from down under.
True literary scholars might dismiss the book as lit crit lite, a hodgepodge of known facts culled from the usual secondary sources.
Christopher Marlowe is the true man of mystery to first-year English-lit students and former Elizabethan scholars like Leslie Silbert, who studied literature at Oxford before going to work for a New York firm of private investigators.
"You're jealous," Drummond says, her face lit by what she believes must be true.
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