Jen Lancaster: Author, Diva, Killer of Dreams
[Welcome Coulter fans! Please check out the rest of my blog here.]
I have a handful of friends that have tried to encourage me to write a book. I jokingly say that “I’m not into politics,” and brush their comments aside. However, I’ve always been interested in writing a novel… until I read Jen Lancaster’s books. Her two books, Bitter is the New Black and Bright Lights, Big Ass are the books I wish I had written. Buy them now. Her books aren’t the typical “Chick Lit” formula that clutters the paperback section at Target (i.e. girl dates a-hole, ignores guy friend, gets dumped by a-hole, realizes guy friend is the one she’s always loved). Speaking of Target, Jen Lancaster refers to Target, Ikea and Trader Joe’s as “the trinity.” Love her — I’m going to coin a new term — “Jenius.”
In a recent blog post, Jen highlights a recent piece of “hate mail” she received:
Dear Jennifer,
I enjoyed your first “literary effort” a great deal although the astericks [sic - I think she means quotation marks][and possibly a different spelling] got a bit annoying, I do realize that’s part of your [sic] ”schtick.” Naturally, I purchased your follow up and quite frankly was instantly turned off by the Fox “News” and Sean Hannity (”Sean Insanity” as I refer to him) references. The final nail in the coffin though, was the part where you are on the bus and pull the Ann Coulter (”Man Coulter” imho) out of your tote bag. My limit with you particular sensibilities was reached and I didn’t even bother to use the drop box at the library (as a donation.) It went right into the garbage compacter (sic) (to make certain it was good and truly crushed and destroyed.)
I feel bad for you. You seemed like someone cool to hang out with, fun to read, etc…
Mare
Jen writes:
Mare says she feels sorry for me.
Which… really?
Because I feel sorry for you, Mare. I’m sorry you feel that opposing (albeit unknown) viewpoints are such an anathema. I’m sorry your mind is so closed that you can’t get past the specifics of a small fraction of the TV I watch and the books that I read. And I’m sorry you had to burn the time and gray matter this morning to let me know exactly how offensive my (unspoken) views are.
Again, you’ll be missed.
Not.
P.S. You realize now I’m obligated to take the two dollars I earned from your purchase to buy Ann’s newest, right?
Jenius.
October 7th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
So many fools, so little time.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
You got linked the Ann’s website AGAIN. That’s how I got here.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
October 7th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
TO*
October 7th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
JEN i also found you through ann,s web,little bit of advice,listen to everyone but fear no one. you go girl tom
October 7th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
ALL ‘BOUT THAT TRINITY!!
October 8th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I have not read the book but now I plan to. Sounds like a good read! Love the trinity reference! What is it with liberals who can’t spell or write and who seem to have lost their sense of humor?
October 9th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
2 great women with actual brains. If Ann’s is ok with you then your worth a read or is that a “double take.” Cheers.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:10 am
WOOHOO!!
yeah
October 10th, 2007 at 8:23 am
ah yes..liberals of the open mind…”we want to discuss all views”..(just as long as they line up with OUR views)…far be it that a lib would actually want to learn anything different. I own and have read and re-read all of Ann’s books.
As of right now, the only way I will ever read any more books by Ann is if she continues to write them…at any rate, I thought a recent study showed that libs read more then normal people? Well I reckon she shot that theory all to hell.
I think it would have been ironic if she got so frustrated with this book that she burned it. These knucklehead libs have absolutely no sense of irony.
October 10th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
I would only hope that one day, Ann will somehow know my name.
You go, Jen!!
P.S. Next step: Buy your book!
October 11th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
The lib chicks lack sense of humor, apparently. Well, Jen, you won’t be invited to Harvard women’s studies department. You won’t nail a gig at Yale English department. You’re too brave for them. But how about, that , as respect for your wit, irony, and superior intellect, the dudes and I will set up one-day book club and read your book. Any American woman who bravely, and wittily, denounces the liberal ayatollah deserves not only respect but admiration. We shall buy your book, discuss its character development and compare it to the greatest, a.k.a. dead white men and women lit. Write another book. Please start the new literary revolution already. We’ve grown tired not of babe lit but of mass-produced lib realism disguised as chic manifesto. A conservative babe wearing Chanel, does her makeup, saluting the American flag while having an original opinion. That’s a protagonist for you. Bless you. Bring idealism back to American lit. How’s that for a new plot: An American babe teaching English lit in Oxford. She speaks Arabic. But she keeps it quiet. She had studied Arabic in high school and college. But to everyone else she’s aloof, she’s naive. But is she really. While lecturing about 19th English lit, and grading papers, she unravels a conspiracy plotted by Musl?m British to take over Oxford. All the papers written by those students are decoded. Who’s behind the plot, who’s assisting the terrorists. Yes, American professors from Harvard and Columbia. They had been trying to nail her down and destroy her. But she prevails. Her boyfriend betrays her. Society denounces her. She’s called racist. She’s called fascist. She ain’t givin’ up protecting democracy, though. Just imagine the plot, the imagery, the heightened prose. It’d get the New York Treason Times talkin’ about you. Ain’t you lucky. Throw in Elizabeth Browning poetry, throw in quotes from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, dig up some reckless, trivial novel written by a 17th century babe –boy you’ve got a masterpiece here. Pulitzer Prize on your desk the next day. Well maybe not that. The prize is reserved only for deconstructed loyalist lib. But you shall be a best-seller. Ain’t that better than a frosted glass statue symbolizing hypocrisy, superficiality, and, perhaps most important, ingrained hatred. I figured if Ann recommends you, you must be good. Write more, we’ll buy it.
October 19th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Well Ann Coulter is an idiot.. but even as a dem i read her stuff so i can understand the my counters view point. I love being liberal and open-minded but fiscially conservative at the same time. But I digress. Jen your first book was amazing, it was recommended to me by a porn star none the less! Funny when I got to your wedding story.. maybe he was at the hotel? Who knows. Anyway I think you’re great and a please. Please continue the good work and I will continue to support you, your literary quos, and your witty answers to insuffrable people.
December 16th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
free asian porn byeyumii
December 16th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
free asian poasian porn video clips byeyumii
December 31st, 2007 at 2:27 am
[…] Jen Lancaster nicely sums up my feelings on New Year’s resolution and, specifically, people that ask for yours. Our failures are hard enough to admit to close friends. So, why do nosy strangers insist on asking? Jen writes on Jennsylvania.com: […]