"lad lit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004 June 6, Jonathan Heawood, “You couldn't make it up”, in The Observer",
          "text": "Publishers have been trying for years to find a winning formula for men's fiction. From lad lit to dad lit to bad lit, men have been barraged with an array of reading matter since Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary stormed up the bestseller lists and into our lives in 1997.",
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          "ref": "2020 September 18, Joanna Briscoe, “Just Like You by Nick Hornby review – ladlit meets mumlit”, in The Guardian",
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