I love reading Publisher's Weekly, Bookmarks, Shelf Awareness, Powell's/Borders/BN.com newsletter, Book Reporter and anything else that's literary. This might sound odd or obvious, but it's true. There's a whole world lurking between the pages of books, and not just the ones that the author made up. Writers who write about books have their own jargon, their own classifications...sometimes they slip up and slip out, right onto the page.
What brought this on: A review in last week's PW (sometimes I fall a bit behind, what with work and all) for Ed Park's upcoming Personal Days, which is described as a "cubicle cozy"...as in, a cozy mystery (a la Agatha Christie, the grand dame of cozy mysteries) that takes place amongst the cubby-dwellers.
So this got me thinking (especially since I really don't feel like reviewing Plans of Service right now), what other fun genres have been developed?
I propose the following (which I'm sure have been shown elsewhere, because I'm not nearly this clever):
Nonmoir: A faux memoir
Twit Lit: The protagonist is truly an idiot who is so self-involved s/he destroys his/her life for no good reason (i.e., most of chick-lit, Hole in My Life)
Barkography: Written from the puppy-perspective
Clique Lit: Candace Bushnell hits the high school set, keeping the martinis, miscarriages and middle-aged men, minus the marriage, menopause and mid-life crisis
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