David Shapiro (5)
Author of You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel
For other authors named David Shapiro, see the disambiguation page.
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- David Shapiro is the creator of the hit blog Pitchfork Reviews Reviews and The World's First Perfect Zine. His first novel "You're Not Much Use to Anyone" was featured in VICE, BuzzFeed, Village Voice, Refinery29, and blurbed by Tao Lin and Adelle Waldman. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, Interview, and other venues.
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(Received from NetGalley) This novel is about David Shapiro, a recent NYU grad whose parents want him to go to law school. Meanwhile, he has a mind-numbing city job and starts a Tumblr blog called Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, sneaking to write entries under the desk and in the bathroom. The author is David Shapiro (not his real name), a recent NYU grad who had a Tumblr blog about Pitchfork... you get the idea. In interviews, he says the story is not completely true, but certainly show more semi-autobiographical, and he eventually did become a lawyer. Fictional David leads a downtown kind of life, with changing girlfriends, apartments, roommates. As an upper West Side, middle-aged nerd who didn't know what Pitchfork was until I looked it up, I don't quite relate, but the book was still fascinating. show less
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- 3.1
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