“I think of it as a book about family.” The rise of Kindles and iPads have seen a corollary rise in promotional book trailers. Many of them star the author themselves. Hell, even my man Thomas Pynchon (his voice, anyway) did one for his last novel, Inherent Vice. That trailer was cool. Some, though, aren’t, and book blog Mobylives has just picked this year’s Most Annoying Performance By An Author.
The nod went to Park Slope’s Jonathan Safran Foer in recognition for his anti-eating animals book, Eating Animals. For a variety of reasons, I’ve pretty much stricken animal protein from my diet, but watching Foer, who’s from Park Slope (wait, did I mention that already? I hope so, ‘cause he really wants you to know that!), truck out his dog, kid and granny in the below video makes me want to head to KFC and, like, double down on these.