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Prose Fit for Gym Reading

Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET

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ORIGINAL BOUNCER Swayze

You've grimaced at chick lit. You've sniveled at fratire. Time to get your ass beat by bouncer lit.

The Boston Phoenix has a piece this week detailing the rise of the literary trend of "war stories, tall tales and tips on fighting," which began in earnest with Jamie O'Keefe's 1997 tome Old School-New School but can be traced back to the Patrick Swayze bare-knuckle spectacular Road House. Today, bouncer lit has reached its cultural zenith with the release of Clublife, Rob the Bouncer's chronicle of guarding doors in West Chelsea.

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The movement contains overtly testosterone-filled titles (Show No Fear, Fight: Or, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking, Muscle) by tough sounding dudes (Marc "Animal" MacYoung, Rob the Bouncer), clearly not your garden-variety literati. But what these beasts of men lack in literary chops they more than make up for in fully gunned lats and delts. Read it, bitch.

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