Chloe Does Yale: A Novel (Paperback)

It's Girls of the Ivy League by a girl of the Ivy League--or at least that's what readers might think at first glance. The reality is a bit more tongue-in-cheek, though not quite a step up in class. Krinsky, student author of a biweekly sex column for the Yale Daily News, writes what she knows with this tale of the adventures of the author of a biweekly sex column for the Yale Daily News. Her fictional stand-in, Chloe Carrington, is a native New Yorker and acts the part--even when she's forced to leave a party clad only in a garbage bag, she manages to accessorize with "two-hundred-dollar lime green heels and large gold earrings." It's adventures like this that she reflects on in her column, entertaining many (Krinsky's real-life column gets 350,000 Web hits a week) and disgusting others. Among her critics is anonymous YaleMale05, with whom she embarks on a flirtatious e-mail relationship. It's hard to blame her for fixating on a cybercrush when she has such a hard time finding a good man. Sure, she hooks up with guys all the time (to her Israeli-American mother's horror: "Oy vavoy"), but finding the right one is a different story. A small crisis of conscience after an especially scandalous blow-job column adds a (tiny) bit of moral drama, but this is mostly a series of tired college party anecdotes, punctuated by Krinsky's real-life columns.
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Yale senior Krinsky writes a popular sex-advice column in the Yale Daily News, so it's no surprise that her debut novel chronicles the adventures of a Yale senior who writes a sex column. Personal experience certainly pays off: her view of college life is fresh and honest. Her fictional alter-ego, Chloe Carrington, gleans material from her own relationships and those of her friends. She finds that sex is a touchy subject that wins her admirers and critics both. Her depictions of sex--usually the clumsy maneuverings attached to early relationships--are more comical than racy. This novel ends up being more about friendship and self-discovery than sex, a la Sex in the City. With the national attention Krinsky's column has garnered, readers will probably be on the lookout for the book to hit the shelves, and they'll find a sweet and funny take on fledging relationships of all kinds. Aleksandra Kostovski
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Go back to college with Natalie Krinsky in this frothy, first novel from the sex columnist for the Yale Daily News, now in paperback Chloe Carrington is a typical Yale student, except that along with toiling through the usual grind of coursework, she pens a notorious and much-dished-over sex column for the campus newspaper. This touch of scandal has wrought havoc on her social and love life, turning it into an open book. Chloe doesnt help matters much; she likes to share, and cant resist divulging the gory details of her most recent date (or lack thereof) in her column, baring her soul, and sometimes the souls of others, for all to see. And thats where the trouble begins. As Chloe probes the campus hot spots, we get a peek at what goes on behind the Ivy Leagues dormitory doorsfrom drinking at Toads, to Exotic Erotic, Yales answer to a Playboy mansion bash, complete with coeds in skimpy bikinis and a lacrosse team clad only in socks. Of course theres perhaps the most favorite extracurricular activitylots and lots of sex. Teeming with exuberance and late-night shenanigans, Chloe Does Yale is filled with humor and candor about typical college situations, both inside and outside the dorm rooms.