Have I been under a rock for the past few years?  I realized that I never heard/read/used that phrase "hen lit" until very recently, coming across it while reading a review of a couple in books in the NY Times. 

The over 40 crowd, it seems, has it's own designated genre. Wonder if they are happy about it? Definitively confirmed to be to old to be a chick. However, speaking for the feminists among us, frankly any aviary reference is barely acceptable to begin with.

And for the over 60 crowd?  Rachel Cooke dubbed them the "twi lit"  in a wonderful piece she had written in 2002. Which, not incidently, confirmed that the term hen lit has been bandied about for far longer than I was aware of, confirming my personal rock hiding concern.

I wonder, if the author is writing for teens does a new designation of fowl have to be assigned? Pul lit?

Anyway, I am seriously considering writing a pul/chick/hen/twi lit book and therefore will be comfortable that I have covered all bases of readers. Let's see…Dorothy, after returning from Oz, runs off with the Scarecrow, after having a torrid but difficult relationship with the Tin Man, who contributed to her heartbreak when he left her for Glenda, but ultimately determined that he actually wanted Auntie Em the whole time.

Yeah, that covers it.