lad lit
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Etymology
Modeled on lad mag and perhaps chick lit.
Noun
- (British) Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.
- 2004 June 6, Jonathan Heawood, “You couldn't make it up”, in The Observer:
- Publishers have been trying for years to find a winning formula for men's fiction. From lad lit to dad lit to bad lit, men have been barraged with an array of reading matter since Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary stormed up the bestseller lists and into our lives in 1997.
