The New York Times reviews Dog Days by blogger Ana Marie Cox and notes the novel "manages to be doubly conventional: it follows both an old-fashioned love-betrayal-redemption arc and the newer, bitchier nanny-Prada chick-lit motif."
The sharpest jabs in Dog Days "are aimed at preblog news media, skewered as the out-of-touch relics of another age... its parodies of press coverage are ruthless."
USA Today is less kind: "The novel has a stripped-down story line and limited character development. The plot is predictable and matter-of-fact. But it does have a blunt, albeit tawdry, honesty."
Meanwhile, a new Wall Street Journal blog notes Cox will soon be giving up her blogging duties to embark on a national book tour.
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