  This is a mostly expository paper, intended to explain a very natural
relationship between two a priori distinct notions appearing in the literature:
Generic Vanishing in the context of vanishing theorems and birational geometry,
and Perverse Coherent Sheaves in the context of derived categories. I describe
homological and commutative algebra criteria for checking either condition, and
then recall applications to geometric situations. A few new results, and
especially new proofs, are included as well.
