In its two months on the market, Sylvia Ann Hewlett's book "Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children" has generated the kind of publicity authors and publishers usually only dream of.
The book was featured on "60 Minutes" and the cover of Time and New York magazines. It was promoted on "Oprah," "Today," "Good Morning America" and the "NBC Nightly News." It was debated on the editorial and op-ed pages of The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times.
But there's one place you will not find a mention of Ms. Hewlett's book: the best-seller lists.... [clip] In The Nation, the columnist Katha Pollitt wrote that "Creating a Life" belonged "with all those books warning women that feminism — too much confidence, too much optimism, too many choices, too much 'pickiness' about men — leads to lonely nights and empty bassinets." [clip]