Fictional Characters Read Fiction

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December 15, 2009 | 1

Dan Humphrey, a character on Gossip Girl, names his top 10 books of 2009.

is a staff writer and contributing editor for The Millions. She is the author of the novella If You're Not Yet Like Me, the New York Times bestselling novel, California, and Woman No. 17. She is the editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers As We Never Saw Them.

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One comment:

  1. Wow, all those fancy handwriting fonts… you’d think they could have gotten a bunch of interns to write them up, but I guess you’ve gotta use ’em if you’ve got ’em.

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