what are 'hipster' books?

well it is technically your career

I can't imagine that's a point of pride, Whiney.

Tbh its low level sense of accomplishment on the level of "returning all your Netflix envelopes," "getting the last coffee before they close," and "only having to wipe once"

outstanding post ^

maybe a more fruitful discussion would be how are books successfully marketed to hipsters, or what the 'hipster' looks for in a book, or trends in hipster lit ... i dunno. Like "Shoplifting from American Apparel" reminded me of "Generation X" in some ways, and i feel like it functions similarly.

I didn't know that was a real book.

footnote to Remy Bean's good definition: male hipsters often seem to do things with their appearance that make them look worse than they already would, eg big beard, huge glasses, stupid cap, deerstalker hat, or something

I doubt that this is true of the female ones.

i'm not _that_ old, but contemporary discussions about hipsters just seem like a retread of late 80s/early 90s Gen X concerns, in a lot of ways.

Absolutely true with female ones

Coupland = Soul Coughing

lol

footnote to Remy Bean's good definition: male hipsters often seem to do things with their appearance that make them look worse than they already would, eg big beard, huge glasses, stupid cap, deerstalker hat, or something

I doubt that this is true of the female ones.

― the pinefox, Sunday, August 28, 2011 8:50 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark

otm and im not even sure if women are excluded

my mom was the one who recommended i read 'confederacy of dunces.' i think i dont have any literary-focused hipster friends or something. i read all the time but have basically no perspective on the *discourse of literature*.

so tao lin = hinder

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110611133207AAv8I6C

nah my mom just reads about books

i mean confederacy of dunces may be big w/ hipsters, idk, but its also just like, an acclaimed book, big with anyone who reads acclaimed books

I had no idea you were half-hipster by birth, d

one drop rule

deej's mom

http://b.vimeocdn.com/ps/160/160955_300.jpg

i thought we agreed thats a 'scene kid' not a hipster

we did, i'm just trolling u

WS tbh

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm107311561/spanking-monkey-dvd-cover-art.jpg

u'd sleep w/ yr mom?

i mean confederacy of dunces may be big w/ hipsters, idk, but its also just like, an acclaimed book, big with anyone who reads acclaimed books

― D-40, Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:55 PM (2 minutes ago)

exactly -- also supports spectrum theory

last person who recommended confederacy of dunces to me was a 50 yr old medical consultant. maybe he thought i was a hipster.

it's also kinda lame

*ducks*

wow, some of our dads know who band of horses is, that doesn't make them hipsters iirc

like I'm more interested in talking about something like the Lucky Peach magazine, which confused me when I got exclamation-filled fb notices from a local magazine/book store that it had arrived, and then that there was only one copy left, and then that it was sold out ...

wow, some of our dads know who band of horses is, that doesn't make them hipsters iirc

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:02 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

NPR covering band of horses is not the same as the new york times book review writing about ... anything they acclaim

deej, you're coming in here setting up a false dichotomy and I don't like it

Whiney, do you have a copy of Oran Canfield's memoir? Also, where would that fall on the hipster lit spectrum?

false dichotomies!!!!!!!

deej, i love u like a brother, but u did the same thing with Gucci Mane. Just because a bunch of hipsters like something that the "normals" in your world of young ppl and moms like, it doesn't mean that A) it makes your friends/families hipsters or B) these things don't have a unique life of their own in hipster circles

i really want to read oran's memoir. his band is on the hipster puppies tape!

i know, i bought the book from him when they were on tour last fall!

is it good?

haven't read it yet ;/

i never claimed "a" and wtf is a 'unique life of their own'

YOU did the same thing w/r/t gucci mane -- just because hipsters do something doesnt make it unique to hipsters or a characteristic of hipsterdom. "hipsters breath -- ergo..."

"because hipsters do something" kind of by definition makes it a characteristic of hipsterdom

i bet hipsters tie their shoelaces much the same way i do -- i must be a hipster

a 'unique life of their own' is being street music in atl and flav of the month in billysburg

i guess the question is whether something as overground as confederacy can be said to have its own unique hipster life...probably it can

are you saying you aren't a hipster, deej? That a proper definition of "hipster" would exclude you?

the counterpoint to whiney's point against deej is that the boundaries of these "hipster circles" are subjectively defined by a critical mass of "these things" that people need to accrete. there is no "correct" or "accepted" definition for that critical mass.

every hipster human life is unique like a snowflake, guys.

are you preparing to be a contestant on jeopardy? is that why your posts are always in the form of a question? xxp

like for my teenagers in my classes, white sunglasses = hipster.

but in my world, everybody from the bro-iest brah to the dirtiest dirtbag has white sunglasses.

i mean vonnegut and wallace are kind of rock n roll

cofederacy guy died in obscurity that's kind of rock n roll

bolano died young that's kind of rock n roll

i think u can get more hipster, like actual counterculture presses, counter to the culture or just the publishing culture, see my post above for big little presses or some of the more fringe stuff like semiotext(e) or the stuff sarahel mentions

a 'unique life of their own' is being street music in atl and flav of the month in billysburg

i guess the question is whether something as overground as confederacy can be said to have its own unique hipster life...probably it can

― zvookster, Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

maybe this is LOL chicago but i never heard ppl in wicker park repping for gucci mane but w/e

deej, i don't know whether to feel dissed or grateful that you don't pay much attention to my posts.