Chick lit has taken over.
Southern lit has tipped, interestingly, to become largely a woman's game, but that's a topic for another time.
In the years since, street lit has leapt from sidewalk tables to best-seller lists and library shelves.
Demand for Up Lit has been building since 2016, says Lisa Milton, publishing director of HarperCollins's Harlequin division.
That, dear reader, is Bridget's raison d'etre, for this is what romance, romcoms or chick lit has to do.
At Alloy, too, a certain weariness with brat lit has set in. "We are really a little sick of mean-girl stuff," Shandler says.
Lithuania's currency, the lit, has been pegged to the dollar since 1994, so export competitiveness has been seriously eroded as the dollar has risen against the D-mark.
Enough canine lit has come out in recent years that a shelter should be built for those tomes that have been neutered and remaindered.
Chick lit has captivated an increasingly wide audience of young women who hear their own voices and feel their own experiences in the pages of these novels.
Chick lit has a reputation for shoes and shopping, and the TV Sex and the City series made much of its Manolos and Jimmy Choos.
The schism in English between "lang" and "lit" has been deep and the lang side, being analytical and precise, long ago ceded territory to the lit side, in which different and more lustrous goals could be achieved.
