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DAVID LAT ON AMY CHUA: ?If you?re going to be a diva, then own it. . . . After her controversia?

By Glenn Reynolds

DAVID LAT ON AMY CHUA: “If you?re going to be a diva, then own it. . . . After her controversial essay about the superiority of Chinese mothers and hard-ass Asian parenting set the blogosphere on fire ? and sent her book rocketing to #5 on the Amazon bestseller list ? Chua backtracked a bit, instead of defiantly standing her ground. . . . Chua should send flowers and chocolate to whoever at the Wall Street Journal put that excerpt together. It?s a brilliant provocation, in the manner of early Ann Coulter. . . . Every book publicist in America should study the rollout of Tiger Mother as a lesson in how to market a book.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 16, 2011 (boomark / email).