Weird Girl Literature
British Publishing Embraces ‘Weird Girl’ Novels About Aimless Women With Bad Jobs, Immediately Shortlists Entire Population of London London’s latest literary movement combines alienation, unaffordable rent, bad employment and staring silently at household objects, meaning publishers may never again need to commission an original plot LONDON | Britain’s publishing industry has enthusiastically embraced the growing phenomenon of “weird girl literature,” only to discover that the defining characteristics of the genre describe…