Sentence examples for assistant lit from inspiring English sources

THE popularity of "The Devil Wears Prada" -- both the execrable novel and the so-so movie -- spawned a small spate of what might be called assistant lit: books about monstrous bosses and the humiliations their underlings endure as the price for proximity to the powerful.

This is chick lit of the assistant subgenre; in this case the boss from hell, Vivian Grant, is a vulgar but brilliantly successful publisher modeled on Judith Regan.

After the meal, the team's assistant coach called the men into their colorfully lit film room featuring a 120-inch screen.

Hillary Chute, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, as well as Rachel DeWoskin and Jeffrey Brown, both faculty members in Creative Writing, were featured on the Newcity Lit 2012 "Lit 50" list, which celebrates "on-the-page creators" active in the Chicago literary scene.

"I think those books are really 'assistant lit,' " Ms. Sykes said, speaking on a mobile phone poolside at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.

Joint lit.

I. Lit.

Citizen Lit.

Lit, Ira & Snyder Jon.

Shareholders Lit.

Sprache Lit.