Venting Steam in the Blogosphere

By WILLIAM PANNAPACKER

Last month I overheard an exchange between the manager of a secondhand bookstore and one of his twentysomething employees.

"The bottom of this box is full of lit-crap."

"Well, just put it outside and keep the other books."

Apparently "lit-crap" is an in-house term for books on literary criticism or "Theory."...