Like spokes on a wheel the genre sections of the shop curve out from the Literary Fiction category. There are sections dedicated to the various genres fictions that we have come to define as Science Fiction, Horror, Crime even Erotic Romance, yet these divisions sit incongruously to the unlabelled Literary Fiction section of the bookshop. American Science Fiction author Bruce Sterling views the relationship between the consumer and genres as a utilitarian dynamic built on a desire for gratification, “Genres gratify people, they gratify a particular mindset. These categories are considered genres, they exist to help the capitalist consumer in sifting through writers until they discover a mirrored desire, a world that vibrates to their emotional and intellectual tuning. Walking into Hodges Figgis, a modern lexicon of the Irish narrative, you are faced with shelves of classification that have grouped identity into categories.
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