Pitchfork Reviews Reviews

Yeah, the guy made that zine that had contributions from tons of hipster-famous people:

http://pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/11870400613/im-putting-out-a-zine-its-called-the-worlds

He also sold a book and wrote a screenplay is being produced into a movie. However he accomplished it, this guy has a lot of connections IRL that go beyond what you'd expect from some random with a tumblr.

"a screenplay that is being produced into a movie" I mean.

"also afaik he is in grad or law school, i don't think he's trying to be a writer"

I think what he said was that when he started law school some sort of non-compete precluded him from writing non-law school stuff, then that disappeared somehow.

he was working at fuse.

still like his writing, the style, tone & sensibility as much as whatever subject he happens to choose

Spy Magazine ran a feature entitled "Logrolling in Our Time" that cited suspicious or humorous examples of mutually admiring book jacket blurbs by pairs of authors. Private Eye magazine regularly draws attention to alleged logrolling by authors in "books of the year" features published by British newspapers and magazines.

White Middle-Class Male Has Extremely "Relatable" Sensibility

If he's in law school and friends with the young literary elite, good chance he's not middle class imho

xp, well yeah [shrug]

There's a David Shapiro at my law school, but I from the blurry pictures of PRR David Shapiro I don't think they're the same guy. I should ask him.

it's a pseudonym

Then it probably won't do much to ask.

hi

http://i.imgur.com/A2IZewR.jpg

http://imagestore.brillianceaudio.com/CoverArt/978-1-4805-8521-8.jpg

well upper middle class but still

David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn’t quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it.

This semiautobiographical debut is a coming-of-age story perfect for our time. In A Sense of Direction author Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s words, “If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart’s parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

Editorial Reviews
Review
“Underneath Shapiro’s seemingly affectless tone is a great deal of real—and urbane—wit as well as an incisive eye for the details that drive relationships. You're Not Much Use to Anyone deliciously captures the plight of the early twentysomething liberal arts major set adrift in a world not especially congenial to his or her particular skill set. It's a very fun and surprisingly poignant read.” —Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

“I read David Shapiro's very funny and deeply moving first novel beginning to end without stopping, delighted and stimulated by its interesting range of endearing characters and the unpretentious, compassionate voice of the narrator, who I found irresistibly and singularly real: at once playful and vulnerable and charming and harsh, yearning and impulsive, mysterious and relatable. I highly recommend You’re Not Much Use to Anyone.” —Tao Lin, author of Taipei

“David Shapiro is the best critic of the made-up status-obsessed horror-show world his generation inherited. His dryly hilarious book would have been nonsensical twenty years ago. He's the obsessive voice of a generation that can see every little crazy thing—except themselves—more clearly than ever.” —Choire Sicha, author of Very Recent History

“David Shapiro's You're Not Much Use to Anyone seems to me the first example we've seen of the successful transformation of blog into novel: where other such projects have lazily slapped the hash of old online content between hard covers, Shapiro has invented a way to use a set of formal tensions – between the raw and the cooked, the fast and the slow, the urgent and the considered – to say something provocative, new, and very funny about performance, ambition, jealousy, and fear. If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction

About the Author
David Shapiro is the creator of the hit blog Pitchfork Reviews Reviews and The World’s First Perfect Zine. He has written for The New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, Interview, and other places. He is currently a law student.

why do you care

he kinda looks like hoos

at least in the picture on the front of the book

he doesn't really look like hoos

the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.

xpost i think he does and fuck your opinion

is that last line meant to sound like sadtrombone or is that just me

xpost i think he does and fuck your opinion

― markers, Friday, April 25, 2014 2:25 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

:-O

i've seen him in person, is all i'm saying

he looks like a young harold ramis more than a hoos doppelganger.

^^

i saw this on...the Tumblr Radar. ;_;

http://pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/89769922407/i-wrote-a-novel-about-three-years-ago-and-it-took

http://38.media.tumblr.com/166171aaf8014ef0fbfa23fd9b5545e3/tumblr_n7ahxzbyWC1qbrkn5o1_500.jpg

When people ask what it’s about, I generally look at the floor and say, “It’s a novel,” and then if they press me, I say, “It’s a novel about being supported by your parents,” or, “It’s a novel about being supported by my parents,” or, “It’s a novel about a blog,” or, “It’s a novel about a Tumblr about a popular music reviews website.” I don’t know exactly how to describe it, but if you read the book and generate a concise and appealing description of it, email me and I’ll try to naturally work your description into situations where I have to talk about what my book is about, e.g., at my grandma’s birthday party in August, on dates, during interviews.

I suspect, if you liked this blog, you might really like the book. And if you hate-read/hate-followed this blog, I guarantee you will love the book and you should pre-order it now. The cover is above and I am the one in the black shirt. The model for the cover was this Minor Threat press photo but the cover didn’t turn out badass like the press photo.

this makes me feel kinda stabby

why do you suppose that is

mostly the photo

http://i.imgur.com/0BOgOWP.png

thanks to that cover i've now got john parr stuck in my head

haaa

so how was this even a thing? it's just a 4-page blog with some random entries

if you resemble the average media company employee but are touch more self-revealing and self-promoting, media company employees may use you to discuss themselves by proxy. see lena dunham, emily gould, the GOP hipster, etc

prediction: this thread will soon get a really interesting revive

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:22 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's right around the corner I think

fyi: i reviewed a pitchfork review for the pitchfork review. which is a magazine. it was fun!

you should write a book about it

what happened to buzza?

so which of the people on that book cover is Dexter going to kill?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ohIRkoKXY

I lose focus on the tour and accidentally start to wonder whether I've made it through twenty-one years of life without ever having formed a genuine connection with another person, and if conversation is so difficult for everyone, and if there might be a medication I could take, that would actually work, that would make it easier to interact with people.

when I read this dude's writing, I hear it in Nathan Fielder's voice

http://thebillfold.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/David-640x401.jpg

It's all the same, only the names will change
Everyday it seems we're wasting away
Another place where the faces are so cold
I'd drive all night just to get back home

yooooo http://gawker.com/tavi-gevinson-is-dating-the-pitchfork-reviews-reviews-1636509172

I found something out about this guy that I can't share on the internet but made me go :-|

what is it