As Kapish Mehra, managing director of Rupa Publications points out, "Earlier an average book of fiction used to sell 5,000 copies to make it a bestseller, chick lit ( or
lad lit as in the case of Bhagat) has changed all that.
Wright beskou
lad lit as die manlike ekwivalent van chick lit en Gill en Herdieckeroff ("Rewriting the romance" 488) as 'n chick lit-subgenre.
The author subdivides urban fiction into a number of subgenres for this book: chick lit,
lad lit, urban erotica, street lit, and urban fantasy.
Welcome to
lad lit.
Lad lit is the male equivalent to chick lit.
"One
lad lit a flare and pushed it into the back of my neck.
We contained our shame to three genres: Chick Lit, Romance, and
Lad Lit. That's enough for now, naughty reader.
The
lad lit a cigarette and even offered Fada half of it, but as he did so he was punched to the side of the head.
He said: "My first two books, Dead Cat Bounce and Peter And Mary Have A Row, got reviewed as being '
lad lit'.
There are some fantastic comedy twists which really raise a smile and the odd chuckle - and it ticks all the boxes for a good piece of '
lad lit'.
We'vehad
lad lit,dad lit and bad lit,but basically blokes aren't really that bothered about the search for Miss Right.
Might we find lots of 'love and spaghetti' in the current '
lad lit' of youngish UK blokes, too?
Nick Hornby has become the Jamie Oliver of the New
Lad Lit but back in 1993 he was just another humble, middle-class, football fan about to hit the big-time somewhat inexplicably by describing life as an Arsenal sufferer.