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Article: Higher-class 'chick lit'; Danielle Crittenden pours modern insights into work.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2003
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Byline: Robert Stacy McCain, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Meet Amanda Bright, wife of an ambitious Washington insider and stay-at-home mother of two.
She's a lot like Danielle Crittenden, wife of former White House speechwriter David Frum and she should be. Mrs. Crittenden created Amanda, the heroine of her first novel, an inside-the-Beltway saga called "Amanda Bright@Home."
Her book has the distinction of being not only the first novel ever serialized by the Wall Street Journal, but also, the author proudly notes, the first "chick lit" book to feature antitrust law as a plot device.
And though the novel has spawned some gossip among ...