what are 'hipster' books?

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