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| | Karen Heller |
 | | Cecily von Ziegesar, the improbably named author of the "Gossip Girl'' oeuvre, once told me, in all seriousness, "I think my books are very similar to Jane Austen." Then again, Plum Sykes said she wrote "Bergdorf Blondes'' because she couldn't find a successor to Truman Capote and Edith Wharton. |
| | Comparisons to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton would also be prohibited for all novelists, especially authors prone to shopping references. |
| | What von Ziegesar has done is not ape Austen, whose work is terrific for teens (Wharton's is, too), but produce Judith Krantz for the Clearasil set. |
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