Titles

A while back on her New York Times blog, Domestic Disturbances, Judith Warner posted a short critique of "dad lit," referencing Neal Pollack’s Alternadad Philip Lerman’s Daditude and Cameron Stracher’s Dinner with Dad: How I Found My Way Back to the Family Table and Michael J. Diamond’s My Father Before Me.

Who reads these things? Do fathers go into stores for these? Does anyone want this as a present? Or is the market women reading the books themselves as a way to understand what should be obvious to anyone (i.e., males)? Based on comments and postings Ms. Warner seems to get the women's side of her disturbances right, but she mislabeled her"Dad lit." It should still refer to what men really read: hefty biographies, tales of war and certain canonical writers of fiction (e.g., Philip K. Dick when young, Richard Ford when older).

** Why are the same women on women's magazines as men's magazines ... only with more clothes? **