From Bookslut:
Driven partly by pressure from incessant literary prize shortlists, more than one in three consumers in London and the south-east admit having bought a book "solely to look intelligent", the YouGov survey says.
It finds one in every eight young people confessing to choosing a book "simply to be seen with the latest shortlisted title".
Everyone knows that Thomas Pynchon's books wouldn't even be in print if it weren't for 20-year-old guys at the campus coffee shop hoping to get laid by a Suicide Girl. Conspicuous public reading is a time-honored pick-up tradition.
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