lad lit

British  

noun

1. 1. fiction about young men and their emotional and personal lives

   2. ( as modifier )

      lad-lit novels

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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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.”

From New York Times

Apart from Davos super-bores, I avoid what in Britain is called “chick lit” or, even worse, “lad lit.”

From New York Times

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.

From Slate

I was this “lad lit” person and that made no sense to me whatsoever.

From Slate