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[...]the whole point of the sprint is to step away from Twitter.\" @ShawnRyanTV The Twitter campaigns mounted by \"The Shield\" creator Shawn Ryan for \"The Chicago Code\" and \"Terriers\" might not have saved them, but they showed tremendous respect for the shows' fans, with whom he interacts regularly. @ShondaRhimes The producer of \"Grey's Anatomy,\" \"Private Practice\" and \"Scandal\" tweets about her shows but also about others she thinks you should be watching, especially \"Cougar Town.\"

Analysis of Young Adult literature spanning 1975-1999 reveals an imbedded link between body image, weight, and sexuality: thinner young women are portrayed as powerful and in control, while larger women are depicted as sexually passive and irresponsible. Young Adult fiction, often maligned or ignored by literary critics, is an important body of work that should be studied by women's studies scholars, literary critics, and educators.

Considering that more than a third of Americans are considered to be obese, why are there so few modern novels with overweight heroes or heroines? --O.E., Los Angeles Last fall, on a discussion board at the National Novel Writing Month's website, an aspiring novelist asked her cohort, \"Does anyone out there have a fat or chubby character who isn't meant to be seen as lazy, gluttonous, awkward or evil, and who doesn't lose weight over the course of the story? Chick-lit writers have introduced heavier heroines in their novels in recent years, the most popular perhaps being Jennifer Weiner's \"Good in Bed,\" in which Cannie Shapiro's ex-boyfriend writes a column for a national women's magazine on \"Loving a Larger Woman\": \"At five foot ten inches, with a linebacker's build and a weight that would have put her right at home on a pro football team's roster, C. couldn't make herself invisible,\" the caddish columnist writes.