mis lit
n.— «Nowadays, there is a mania for memoirs, and in fact there are so many of them that they have come to be called in some quarters “mis lit” (misery literature).» —“Larry McMurtry on Cormac, Heaven’s Gate, and his favorite librarian” by Deanne Stillman LA Observed: Native Intelligence May 1, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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