what are 'hipster' books?

my list itt is still the definitive one, nice try tho urban outfitters

Is pulp crime fiction hipster lit?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-osMFxN_b1qg/Tq0eOP01SiI/AAAAAAAADX0/l0qrThGIyVY/s400/Parker+Black+Ice+US+and+UK.jpg

no

that's more 'nerd with vague occasional hipster leanings'

basically i guess

march 1997 issue of disney adventures definitely tilts towards nerd

i really must get around to reading the tunnel

looks like the right sort of Crash, but hipster should have Dick in 70s Panther not 90s Vintage surely.

I don't know what Panther is but there is some 70s Dick on another shelf

You can just barely make out 70s editions of The Adolescence of P-1 and Barth's "The End of the Road" on the second shelf there

btw this is a shelf in my old room at my parent's house that's been untouched since around 2002. wow, 10 years, that seems impossible.

in 02 these wouldve been a lot closer to h1pster books i think

MIRANDA JULY

lydia davis

where does Jonathan Safran Foer fit into this band scheme

― corey, Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:38 PM (2 years ago)

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/05/chipotle-cups-will-now-have-stories-by-jonathan-safran-foer-toni-morrison-and-other-authors

The truth is, that’s not really why I did this. I mean, I wouldn’t have done it if it was for another company like a McDonald’s, but what interested me is 800,000 Americans of extremely diverse backgrounds having access to good writing. A lot of those people don’t have access to libraries, or bookstores.

What an elite prick

"People who have access to a Chipolte but not a library or a bookstore"

Can only imagine how bad the Saunders story will be

Will probs feature a talking burrito

que?

Foer didn’t know what to expect, but Ells went all in. Starting Thursday, VF Daily can exclusively reveal, bags and cups in Chipotle’s stores will be adorned with original text by Foer, Malcolm Gladwell, Toni Morrison, George Saunders, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Lewis. Foer says ,” Chipotle refrained from meddling in the editorial process for the duration of the initiative, which the burrito chain has branded Cultivating Thought. “I selected the writers, and insofar as there was any editing, I did it,” Foer said. “I tried to put together a somewhat eclectic group, in terms of styles. I wanted some that were essayistic, some fiction, some things that were funny, and somewhat thought provoking.”

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If anyone could pull off a good short story on a chipotle cup, it's george saunders. no idea what the fuck waterface is talking about.

i think it sounds like a bad idea thats what im talking about

the whole idea yes, but IDG what you're talking about wrt saunders

these are all oprah winfrey writers, what do you expect. promoting people hurting themselves for bags of cash is sorta the deal.

yeah saunders is the most promising name here, in context. (also out.) all the ones printed in that vf piece suck as far as i can tell.

wait no sorry i didn't see gladwell's name. gladwell is perfect for this obv.

Saunders is not an Oprah writer

but Oprah is a Saunders character

that neuromancer cover is hilarious

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/los-angeles-review-cups

chipotle cup reviews

Jonathan Safran Foer, “Two-Minute Personality Test”: A series of would-be thoughtprovoking questions that instead provoke total exasperation. They are all terrible, but I found the last one most particularly and powerfully irritating: “You know it’s a ‘murder of crows’ and a ‘wake of buzzards’ but it’s a what of ravens, again? What is it about death that you’re afraid of? How does it make you feel to know that it’s an ‘unkindness of ravens’?”

Foer’s casual presumption and smug moral certainty drove me up a tree in record time. While it is completely unsurprising to learn that he is not a fan of the greatest British crime novelist of the last several decades, Ruth Rendell, surely Foer might at least have heard of the (excellent) mystery, An Unkindness of Ravens. Also no, I did not know it was a “wake of buzzards.” Entirely grating, from stem to stern.

Thoughts Cultivated? No.

jonathan safran foer is such a piece of shit

I don't really think of his books as hipster books, more like mainline young democratic NPR-listener books, although I get that those are the same things to some people.

A writer I think of as a hipster writer, perhaps unfairly, is John Fante -- he just seems like someone people want to be seen reading and I unreasonably don't believe that his books can actually be any good based on who has recommended him to me.

i overheard a non-hipster woman recommending john fante to her father in a used bookstore the other day

John Fante is actually very good, BUT I suspect you have to first read him when you're young

lots of people came to him via bukowski/black sparrow. thus the cool dude cred or whatever.

I never really liked Bukowski, but when I was a struggling young writer with no money, Fante's books about struggling young writers with no money definitely worked for me