Ho, Hum, Yawn: Is It That Time Again?

Genre versus literature: Why will the fact that Tom Rob Smith's CHILD 44 made the longlist for the Man Booker Prize only serve to widen the gulf between genre and "literature"? There's more than enough talk out there already to make most want to skip the blogs, but the link to Jeff Vandermeer's THE LANGUAGE OF DEFEAT makes up for the topic.