The paperback edition of Jennifer Solow‘s (left) debut novel, The Booster, is starting to show up in American bookstores now, but in France, they’re about to experience her quick-fingered take on the chick lit genre for the first time. But as Fleuve Noir readies their copies of Vol à Main Ganté (“Gloved Robbery”), they’ve hit one tiny snag: The weekly celebrity magazine Public bailed on a planned first serial due to, they told her agent at ICM, “sudden qualms about promoting kleptomania.” In other words, a book about a socialite shoplifter is “too scandalous” for a magazine that, in its most recent issue, promises to go “behind the scenes of Eva Longoria’s overprotective marriage” and drools over the Lindi-Kate-Pete fracas. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
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