Of course!

That's why books like Never Coming Back

"Struggling with fear, despair, and suspicious Swedish authorities when his wife fails to return home, Mike endures a nightmarish existence with his daughter, unaware that his vigil is being secretly filmed and shown to his wife by her abductors in a nearby cellar..."

have moved, like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, out of crime or mystery sections and into general fiction sections everywhere! It's the pandemic corruption.

General fiction has always covered war (Stendahl) adventure, comedy (Defoe), domestic fiction, adultery (Flaubert, Tolstoy), and horror (Shelley) - the plain bloodsimple used to be mystery (Hammett).

Between them the drug trade (begun in earnest during the Vietnam War and continued throughout the Latin American sectors of the Cold War and the Friedmanite collapse of the Soviet bloc) and the War on Terror have corrupted everything. Middle class reality (Chekhov, Cheever, Updike, stretching to Burroughs & Heller) is turned to genrefic.

The Structure of Autumn

The Word's the Thing

I was tripping around my local facility the other day, looking for and at this and that, reading the intervening spine-labels, when it occurred to me that the shelf-dividers & other descriptors on offer have been somewhat overwhelmed by developments in the publishing industry.

So, with great humility, I offer the Library of Congress the following possibilities for fiction and non-fiction, print and other formats:

Belleslettristic trash

Hipster epistemology

Debordian spectacle

Gormless clusterfuck

Further suggestions wined, dined, & entertained below...