- TV star memoir
- rock star memoir
- movie star memoir
- TV star memoir
- poems collected by a Kennedy
- country singer memoir
- Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
- biography of Barack Obama's mother
- Navy Seal book
- TV star memoir
- football coach memoir
- Starbucks CEO business book
- movie star memoir
- The Social Animal, by David Brooks
- TV star book
- movie star memoir
So what's my point in all this? I don't know that I have one, except it bothers me that 75% of the NYT bestseller list, the thermometer of American literary culture, is a bunch of garbage. I guess I'm used to the fiction list being a mix of movie tie-ins, pulp fiction, and good literature. But these "books" that make it onto the non-fiction list bother me.
I was prompted to write this by a Star-Telegram article this morning (here's the link to the NYT version) that discussed upcoming novels by the Kardashian sisters, Snooki (from some reality show), and some other people who are famous for being famous. It's a funny article, especially when the air-headed celebrity "authors" talk about the rigors of writing, then, as it turns out, have a ghost writer doing the real work.
Speaking of writing garbage, maybe that's what I'm writing with this little rant. I just hope the future of a literate United States doesn't rest exclusively on the shoulders of Snooki, Shania Twain, and the Kardashians.
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