While chick lit has become very popular with readers, critics have largely disapproved of the genre. Reviewer Alex Kuczynski, writing for "The New York Times", condemned Fielding's novel in particular, writing: "Bridget is such a sorry spectacle, wallowing in her man-crazed helplessness, that her foolishness cannot be excused." Writer Doris Lessing deemed the genre "instantly forgettable" while Beryl Bainbridge called the genre "a froth sort of thing". Debate continued with the publication of editor Elizabeth Merrick's anthology "This Is Not Chick Lit" (2005), where Merrick argued in her introduction that "Chick lit's formula numbs our senses", and editor Lauren Baratz-Logsted's 2006 response "This Is Chick Lit" whose project was "born out of anger".