Lad Lit

[Ghetta Life]

http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=w5nt0m56vb6544g9t4nl592zb66h49v0

a spate of books that have collectively been dubbed "lad lit," the male 
riposte to "chick lit" — that juggernaut spearheaded by Helen Fielding's 
Bridget Jones's Diary in 1996, which sold two million copies and spawned 
both a sequel and a companion book, two films, and countless imitators. Each 
of the recent lad novels is a sort of anti-bildungsroman, in which a 
sardonic, clever, unapologetic slacker refuses to grow up, get a meaningful 
job, commit to relationships, or find any meaning in life.

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