American Saturdays: Author Article - Robert Rave
As soon as I found out I had the opportunity to be a part of the book tour for Robert’s newest release, Waxed, I knew I wanted to have him chat with us a bit about a topic that may be a bit controversial. Men, writing Chick Lit. More specifically, how he feels about the stigma attached to it and why he didn’t decide to just go with a pen name to avoid that. What he came up with was just perfect! Enjoy!
At a dinner party not so long ago, I found myself enjoying an amazing glass of Riesling and I was about to devour a mouthwatering scoop of raspberry sorbet when someone brought up a very heady book review that recently appeared in The New Yorker. After Marianne, our host, hemmed and hawed over the brilliance of this highbrow book nearly everyone at the table swore they were going to go home and order it immediately. Except for me. I knew they were lying.
The reality was that I knew my friends and I knew their taste in books. To prove this point, I went around the table as quickly as I could and asked what they were reading. However, I didn’t want to give them the opportunity to be able to name some book that they’d only read about but not actually read in an effort to sound more intellectual.
The answers were nearly all the same. “Oh, just a beach-read” followed by an ashamed shrug. One friend literally turned red in embarrassment when she told me the name of the author she was reading because this author was considered “chick-lit.”
