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(informal) Literary fiction which appeals to, or is marketed toward, men, typically written by male authors and centering on male characters..
A professed affinity for Manfiction was a central tenet of this precarious Cool Girl identity; a Cool Girl was always ready to support the literary analysis presented by the dudes, even after consuming a fifth of bourbon at three in the morning.
He sang the praises of Elmore Leonard, Chabon, Malamud and a host of tough-guy “manfiction” novelists, to use his affectionately satirical term.
And current manfiction certainly gives women a better deal than they got in the pulps of yesteryear, when most were presented as barracuda debs in frilly negligees.
Use manfiction when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Manfiction means (informal) Literary fiction which appeals to, or is marketed toward, men, typically written by male authors and centering on male characters..
Common synonyms include dick lit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A professed affinity for Manfiction was a central tenet of this precarious Cool Girl identity; a Cool Girl was always ready to support the literary analysis presented by the dudes, even after consuming a fifth of bourbon at three in the morning.
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