Reader Battle
The Random House website has a new reader that lets you preview books. It's similar to Amazon's "Look Inside" feature, except you're able to paste the code into your own website. You can see it action on my Fiction & non-fiction page with Joy of Doing Things Badly. Nothing yet for Having it All? or Miss Black America. Blogger blocks the scripts that make this possible, which is why I'm pointing you to this page. Look for it in the left-hand column. RH also has a reader version of Leslie Steiner's Mommy Wars book. I've linked to that from my anthologies page.

If you go to that page, you'll first see a link to the reader HarperCollins has developed. If you want to read three pages from my Bitch in the House essay, click on it. Unlike the RH reader, this will take you to the HC site.

Modern Love on the Shelf
A selection of stories from the New York Times' Sunday Styles "Modern Love" relationship column is out now. My editor Dan Jones was nice enough to pick my article about failed dating techniques for inclusion in the book.

Review Excerpts
From a somewhat positive LA Times review that's making the rounds via the Tribune wire: "What saves Kickboxing Geishas from becoming The Girlfriends' Guide to Japanese Women are the voices of the women Chambers meets later and the parallels she teases out between them and their Western peers" and "... "the stories she has found are a valuable reminder of how far we've come -- and how far Japan has yet to go."

Publication Party
On Wednesday, February 28, at 7pm, Aimee Liu is having a release party for her book Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders at Duttons Books, 11975 San Vicente Blvd., Brentwood/Los Angeles, CA.

Author proceeds from this event will be donated to the Academy for Eating Disorders Scholarship Fund, to advance research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of eating disorders.