Okay, okay, I chickened out on the headline - but I'm gonna go out on a writerly limb and say, yeah, the idea of genre fiction is bullshit. (Kind of)

Yes, I get it... how can an agent sell your work if it doesn't solidly sit in one genre? How can a publisher publish it? Where's a bookstore supposed to shelve it? What do you tell the person who finds out you are a writer when they ask what kind of books do you write? (Usually on a plane, or a line-up at the DMV.)
How about what you tell your mo--