manfiction
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manfiction (uncountable)
- (informal) Literary fiction which appeals to, or is marketed toward, men, typically written by male authors and centering on male characters.
- 2007 March 18, Ben Neihart, “Prince of Darkness”, in The New York Times:
- He sang the praises of Elmore Leonard, Chabon, Malamud and a host of tough-guy “manfiction” novelists, to use his affectionately satirical term.
- 2008 October 12, Stephen King, “Who Says Real Men Don't Read?”, in Entertainment Weekly:
- 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.
- 2010, Amanda Hess (quoting Tiger Beatdown), "The Morning After: Manfiction and Mandles Edition", Washington City Paper, 1 June 2010:
- 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.