On Bullcrit: How Uninformed Judgment Drives the Book Business

"Bullcrit. Ever since I first heard the term a few years back, I instantly recognized the genius in its coinage, it's sheer high-concept needfulness. When the culture truly requires an emerging concept to find definition, it throws up a term like this. Bullcrit is what you call an opinion someone expresses about something,usually a work of art, but, really, it could be anything,about which that someone has no actual firsthand knowledge or experience. It's kind of like gossip, except that it's cheaper and comes from a more vain, more fearful and more desperate place in its perpetrators. "