Move over, Hemingway! Youtube sensation PewDiePie, as famous for his video game commentary as he is for his loyal fanbase (the curiously-dubbed “Bro Army”), is a New York Times best-seller. PewDiePie’s This Book Loves You is one of three books written by Youtubers currently enjoying positions on various best-seller lists.
Defining a Generation
Gary Shteyngart’s Book Trailer
This “book trailer” released by Gary Shteyngart for his upcoming book Super Sad True Love Story has been the cause of much recent hilarity. If you have yet to see it, look for appearances by Jeffrey Eugenides, Jay McInerney and actor James Franco.
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Biblio-klepto-mania
"Symptoms included a frenzy for culling and hunting down first editions, rare copies, books of certain sizes or printed on specific paper." Lauren Young writes in Atlas Obscura about the phenomenon of bibliomania, "a dark pseudo-psychological illness" that afflicted upper-class victims in Europe and England during the 1800s. And for a first-hand account of more contemporary book theft, read John Brandon on his high school pastime: "The first time was nerve-racking, a rush, but by the third book I was already settling in."
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Tuesday New Release Day: Johnson, Auslander
New books this week: Adam Johnson's much talked-about novel The Orphan Master's Son, Shalom Auslander's first novel and Hope: A Tragedy.
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The Queens Bookshop Initiative
What can make the world a better place? Books. Check out this Kickstarter to bring a bookstore to Queens.
Untethered
“Her characters sleepwalk to their certain fates through artificial pocket universes, each one seemingly constructed to satisfy the curiosity of an inhumane, omniscient narrator. Few writers have been so consistently and brilliantly unkind.” On Muriel Spark’s The Bachelors.
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Coda
Sad that Mad Men is over? We've got just the thing. Back in 2012, our own Hannah Gersen compiled a list of ten books to read when a given season -- or, in this case, the series -- comes to an end.
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