The Illusion of Genre

So to pass the time while the current administration keeps throwing spaghetti at the wall, I thought Id write a little about genre.

Genre is a marketing construct.

Is that little enough?

To be more specific: genre is a way of categorizing books that helps publishers sell them to the people they believe will want to read them. The divisions between genres are often fuzzy, and even incomprehensible to people who arent readers of those genres; but they exist, mainly, to set the expectations of...