part of Britain's 1990s media-driven lad subculture, the term lad lit preceded chick lit. Books categorised as lad lit from UK authors Nick Hornby and Tony...

with the term lad lit is more complicated: lad lit arose in the UK separately from, and possibly before, chick lit. Later, the term lad lit was adopted...

advertising revenue for men's magazines. List of men's magazines Lad lit "Sex doesn't sell as lads mags suffer". BBC News. 16 August 1999. Retrieved 19 December...

Lad culture (also the new lad, laddism) was a media-driven, principally British and Irish subculture of the 1990s and the early 2000s. The term lad culture...

My Legendary Girlfriend (1998) is the first novel by Birmingham born lad lit writer Mike Gayle. It follows the story of Will Kelly who is still in love...

Express, FHM, More!, The Scotsman and Top of the Pops. Gayle is a chick-lit author, although he has expressed a dislike for the term. Alongside Tony...

delineations of the elements that define genre. By Age Children's Fratire Lad lit New adult fiction Young adult Battle royal Classic (or literary fiction):...

Daily Telegraph. Nick Laird Biography, courtesy of British Council Arts. Lad Lit Interview on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show. John Redmond Reviews To a Fault...

novel has had some influence on the literary community, leaving the label "lad-lit" behind, although the term itself was not coined until the 1990s. In 1962...

Turning Thirty (2000) is the third novel from Birmingham born lad lit writer Mike Gayle. It follows the story of Matt Beckford who is on the cusp of his...

2020 the Macc Lads began selling their own range of COVID-19 face-masks, featuring a cartoon of a stubbly chin and a mouth holding a lit cigarette. They...

century. Also in 1896 A.E. Housman published at his own expense A Shropshire Lad. Writers of comic verse included the dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator...

Arc the Lad (アークザラッド, Āku za raddo) is a series of tactical role-playing games created by Toshiro Tsuchida, originally developed by G-Craft and published...

capitalize on the trend with new iterations of the word, including "lad-lit", "dicklit", "frat-lit" and "menaissance". Melissa Lafsky of The New York Times described...

A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly...

are popular genres such as chick lit and lad lit, but de Brito has established a category all his own: dickhead lit." De Brito wrote columns in a provocative...

romance dealing with love between men.[citation needed] The genre of lad lit also has somewhat similar connotations. For example, the novels Belinda...

folklore, considered the pet of the ogress Grýla and her sons, the Yule Lads. The first definitive mention of the Yule cat is from an 1862 collection...

cultural favourite. Silkstone, Dan (15 July 2006). "Mature face of Aussie lad lit". The Age. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 6 January...

Royal Mail stamps released in 2020. O'Regan received a dedication from UK 'lad lit' writer Tony Parsons in his Punk eulogy 'The Boy Looked at Johnny', and...

his first novel, Girlfriend 44. He then made a name for himself writing "lad lit". He currently lives and writes in Brighton, East Sussex, and South Cambridgeshire...

them when she visits Lorraine. [1] | [2] (e discussed as an example of lad lit) | [3] Archived 8 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine | [4] | [5] According...

School. ISBN 978-0-646-55807-3. Silkstone, Dan: Mature face of Aussie lad lit, The Age, 15 July 2006. Wyndham, Susan: The Hot Seat: Nick Earls, The Sydney...

furious murder and mayhem ensue", and called the novel "laugh-a-minute lad lit". Driving Big Davie (Book, 2004). WorldCat.org. OCLC 55624240. Retrieved...

Bruce Sterling. Harborne-based Mike Gayle is one of the key exemplars of lad lit, a genre of fiction that developed in the 1990s exploring "unheroic" tales...

1890s A. E. Housman (1859–1936) published at his own expense A Shropshire Lad. The poems' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside...

except Bulcsú Lád, who served as Bishop of Csanád from 1229 to 1254. Members of the kindred began to call themselves "de genere Werbulchu" (lit. "Blood Bulcsú")...

shoes by a window so that the 13 Yule Lads (jólasveinarnir) can leave small gifts in their shoes. The Yule Lads are the sons of two trolls, Grýla and...

Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and White Russia or simply Litbel (Lit-Bel), was a Soviet republic that existed within the parts of the territories...

Boy or Camel Xiangzi (Chinese: 骆驼祥子; pinyin: Luòtuo Xiángzi; lit. 'Camel Auspicious Lad') is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a...