Paperback advance reader copies were once sent to critics and booksellers to secure review attention and favorable retail placement. More recently, they have been showing up in the hands of actors and influencers, tucked into designer totes, perched on beach chairs, or featured on Instagram Stories shot in Montauk, resting on linen-covered laps beside sweating glasses of wine. What used to be industry ephemera has become the status galley, a new form of cultural currency.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the human condition is to show that you have something before someone else, especially if it\u2019s desirable,\u201d says Chris Black, the co-host of the popular podcast How Long Gone. \u201cBut I also think, with books, it makes you seemingly smart or at least look smart. And that\u2019s in addition to being ahead of the curve, which I think is always something we\u2019re striving for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paperback advance reader copies were once sent to critics and booksellers to secure review attention and favorable retail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8347,8348,64,63,8349,457,8350,8351,8352,8353,134,8354,8355,8356,8357,8358,8359,8360,8361,8362,8363,8364,8365,8366,8367,8368,8369,8371,8370,8372,8373,8374,8375,8376,8377,8378,8379],"class_list":["post-6438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-alex-levy","tag-amy-schumer","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belletrist","tag-books","tag-chris-black","tag-didion-babitz","tag-emma-roberts","tag-empire-of-the-elites","tag-entertainment","tag-farrar-straus-giroux","tag-fsg","tag-how-long-gone","tag-how-to-lose-your-mother","tag-intermezzo","tag-it-girl","tag-james-frey","tag-jane-birkin","tag-jennifer-aniston","tag-kaitlin-phillips","tag-kara-preiss","tag-lauren-puckett-pope","tag-lauren-santo-domingo","tag-lena-dunham","tag-lili-anolik","tag-lingua-franca","tag-maris-kreizman","tag-marisa-meltzer","tag-michael-grynbaum","tag-molly-jong-fast","tag-new-york-times","tag-nicole-ritchie","tag-rachelle-hruska-mcpherson","tag-sally-rooney","tag-sarah-jessica-parker","tag-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}