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lad lit
noun
- fiction about young men and their emotional and personal lives
- ( as modifier )
lad-lit novels
Example Sentences
His script, written with Sabrina Lepage, is the cinematic equivalent of lad lit, and it lacks the depth of the genre’s best from authors like Nick Hornby.
The journalist and author of “People Who Eat Darkness” and, most recently, “Ghosts of the Tsunami” avoids “lad lit” even more assiduously than he avoids “chick lit.”
Apart from Davos super-bores, I avoid what in Britain is called “chick lit” or, even worse, “lad lit.”
I was this “lad lit” person and that made no sense to me whatsoever.
Funny Girl extends a seemingly unlikely trend in Hornby’s writing: Once seen as the father of “lad lit,” he’s now established himself as one of the best writers of women’s stories in film.
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