Did you hear that? The sound of rustling pages, virtual events starting on Zoom, tumbling herbs rolling through the stacks? This is the sound of indie bookstores struggle to get around during Pandemic Year Three. But literary heroes come in all sizes, and not all wear caps. In fact, some wear shorts.
Chris Pine was in sunny Los Angeles last weekend photographed exciting indie bookseller Skylight Books. We appreciate Pine’s commitment to a Esquire-approved inner leg, but it’s not just the shorts we love – it’s the books. If photographers are going to follow you in the city, you might as well take good advantage of their investigation, which is exactly what Pine did by showing his purchases, spines-out. He grabbed Caroline Desroche’s Los Angeles Standards, a photo book on Los Angeles typography; That of Kaoru Takamura Lady Joker, a crime thriller by a Japanese superstar; Jon Kalman Steffanson’s Summer light then comes the night, a literary novel of the Icelandic countryside; and Agustina Bazzterica’s Soft is the flesh, an Argentine dystopia over legalized cannibalism. We love a guy with a global perspective – and a great KN95 mask.
But this is not the first time The People’s Chris has represented him for books and indie booksellers. In fact, Pine has long been a low-key book influencer – so much so that he has formed fans book clubs around the titles he refers to in interviews. Urban legends abound over his time as an undergraduate student in the English department at Berkeley, where, if you believe first-hand Twitter accounts, he made a strong impression to write short stories in an erotic class.
As for local shopping, he was photographed Skylight Books as far back as 2013, and was even familiar to make appointments there (who among us would not go on a bookstore appointment with Chris Pine?). In the summer of 2020, he has a splash step out of Skylight Books with a hefty bag of purchases and a heavy-duty N95 mask, once again pantomime at the paparazzi. The affection goes both ways; Skylight shared the photos on Twitter, calling themselves “the proud bookseller of Hollywood’s best Chris”.
This year, let’s all be more like Chris Pine and not waste any time diving into us reading lists. The best Chrises — all the best people, really — buy locally and disguise.
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