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Hipster Lit

Hip*ster: one who possesses tastes, social attitudes and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool." A Hipster would say instead "deck."

The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not one of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than two-per-cent body fat.

- The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham

After reading Robert Lanham’s Hipster Handbook (Anchor, $14.95), would-be hipsters will make their way to bookstores with a long list of required reading. "All hipsters are selective about reading and wouldn’t be caught dead reading garbage written by Tom Clancy, Belva Plain or Nora Roberts," writes Lanham. "Hipsters often allow hip books to dangle from their bags to show others how cutting-edge they are."

Here’s Lanham’s must reads for the hipster crowd:

Send to Printer If you haven't read 'em, pretend you have Hipster Lit Hip*ster: one who possesses tastes, social attitudes and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool." A Hipster would say instead "deck." The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not one of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than two-per-cent body fat. - The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham After reading Robert Lanham’s Hipster Handbook (Anchor, $14.95), would-be hipsters will make their way to bookstores with a long list of required reading. "All hipsters are selective about reading and wouldn’t be caught dead reading garbage written by Tom Clancy, Belva Plain or Nora Roberts," writes Lanham. "Hipsters often allow hip books to dangle from their bags to show others how cutting-edge they are." Here’s Lanham’s must reads for the hipster crowd:
	1.	Frisk by Dennis Cooper
	2.	Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
	3.	High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
	4.	Valley of the Dolls (Susann, Jacqueline) by Jacqueline Susann
	5.	Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes by Terry Southern
	6.	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
	7.	Infinite Jest: A Novel by David Foster Wallace
	8.	Notable American Women: A Novel by Ben Marcus
	9.	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
	10.	The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
	11.	Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
	12.	Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
	13.	Cathedral by Raymond Carver
	14.	The New York Trilogy (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Paul Auster
	15.	A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
	16.	Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
	17.	Great Jones Street (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo
	18.	Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
	19.	We: A Novel of the Future (Transaction Large Print Books) by Eugene Zamiatin
	20.	The Stranger by Albert Camus
	21.	London Fields by Martin Amis
	22.	Mama Black Widow by Iceberg Slim
	23.	Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
	24.	White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
	25.	Naked by David Sedaris
	26.	The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Facsimile Edition, No 1) by Carolyn Keene
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