Benjamin Kunkel’s debut novel, Indecision “is the latest in a spate of books that have collectively been dubbed “lad lit,” the male riposte to “chick lit” — that juggernaut spearheaded by Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary in 1996, which sold two million copies and spawned both a sequel and a companion book, two films, and countless imitators. Each of the recent lad novels is a sort of anti-bildungsroman, in which a sardonic, clever, unapologetic slacker refuses to grow up, get a meaningful job, commit to relationships, or find any meaning in life.”