Literary Term of the Week

DILETTANTE

1)One who follows an art for the love of it rather than as a serious profession.
2)Usually applied to one who reads and talks books and writers from hearsay and a careless reading, perhaps of reviews, as opposed to the student who makes a careful and critical study of a writer, period, movement, or book.
3)A dabbler.

-Taken from A HANDBOOK TO LITERATURE by William Flint Thrall & Addison Hibbard

(Fred Hudson admits to being a dilettante)