Strictly Casual — Amy Prior

The course of true love for the single girl has never been rougher, but there are always good times to be had on the way. Even the most wayward of girls and wickedest of women can become dazed and confused by the complexities of contemporary romance: detached intimacy-at-a-distance chatrooms; our greater pursuit of all things alcoholic; the growing possibility of cross-country relations; ever-mutating domestic arrangements; intrusion by a variety of therapists; strictly casual affairs. Well beyond the rosy stereotypes of chicklit, Strictly Casual shows how pleasure and chaos make strange bedfellows.Contributors include Brett Ellen Block, Barbara Gowdy, Bonnie Greer, Caren Gussoff, A.M. Homes, Pagan Kennedy, Cris Mazza and Lynne Tillman.