Chloe Does Yale
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Chloe Does Yale is a college fiction or more precisely a chick lit
novel by Natalie Krinsky. The story line follows a Yale
junior, Chloe Carrington, who writes a stirring column, “Sex in the (Elm) City” for the Yale Daily News
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, and is active in the campus newspaper. Her notorious column addresses the dating dilemmas all coeds face and draws much interest. That’s what any young writer wants, right? Not in this case. After dishing the details of her most recent dates or the lack of activity in her love life Chloe finds that men are often intimidated by the possibility that their endeavors may end up in the Yale Daily News. She doesn’t find herself lonely, as there is plenty going on to keep her attention elsewhere. But when a “cybercrush” evolves from her countless online critics its no surprise that Chloe lets herself become engrossed with this developing relationship.
Chick lit
Chick lit is genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly. The genre sold well during the 1990s and 2000s, with chick lit titles topping bestseller lists and the creation of imprints devoted entirely to chick lit...
novel by Natalie Krinsky. The story line follows a Yale
YALE
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junior, Chloe Carrington, who writes a stirring column, “Sex in the (Elm) City” for the Yale Daily News
Yale Daily News
The Yale Daily News is an independent student newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878...
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Plot introduction
Chloe Is a typical college student. She participates in campus traditions, tries to have some fun between all the tedious coursework of the Ivy LeagueIvy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
, and is active in the campus newspaper. Her notorious column addresses the dating dilemmas all coeds face and draws much interest. That’s what any young writer wants, right? Not in this case. After dishing the details of her most recent dates or the lack of activity in her love life Chloe finds that men are often intimidated by the possibility that their endeavors may end up in the Yale Daily News. She doesn’t find herself lonely, as there is plenty going on to keep her attention elsewhere. But when a “cybercrush” evolves from her countless online critics its no surprise that Chloe lets herself become engrossed with this developing relationship.
Autobiographical content
Many critics debate the possibility that Chloe Does Yale is simply the memoirs of author Natalie Krinsky. Krinsky attended Yale, where she wrote “Sex in the (Elm) City” for the Yale Daily News. Some of her actual articles appear in the novel as Chloe’s work but the rest of the novel's content is pure fiction.External links
- Friends Don't Let Friends Cock Block One of Natalie Krinsky's articles for "Sex and the (Elm) City"
- Ambiguity: It Might Screw You Over, It Might Not Another Sampling of Krinsky's work in "Sex in the (Elm) City"
- Chloe Sucks. And Maybe Swallows Yale Herald review of Krinsky's book by Nick Antosc: a Scathing review of book