ABSTRACT
In the fall of 2003, the Baltimore City Paper published an introduction to chick lit called "Chick Lit 10 1." Author Lizzie Skurnick offered as a sidebar a tongue-in-cheek quiz-"Did I Just Buy Chick Lit?"-with ten multiplechoice questions about the book's cover, author, main character, and themes. The point, naturally, was to establish the genre's formulas. Take question 7: "Does she work at: a) a women's magazine, b) a newspaper, c) a TV station, d) any other organization that can be linked, however tenuously, to 'the media'?" Naturally, choice a, b, c, or d fits the formula.
