The actress is the latest celebrity to pivot to bookfluencer, joining Reese Witherspoon, Emma Roberts, Emma Watson, Kaia Gerber, Kendall Jenner, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Dua Lipa, and others.
by Marie-Helene Bertino. It’s a quiet, lyrical book published in January by FSG, about a working-class girl named Adina who is born in 1977 and soon starts being visited each night by aliens from another galaxy who use her to glean information about life on Earth. It’s exactly the kind of slightly off-kilter thing you’d expect Dakota Johnson to be drawn to if, like me, you are a semi-scholar of the queen nepo baby who, which is what she’s really supposed to be doing interviews about right now.
Every single thing about this announcement piqued my interest. It also got me wondering about why it is, exactly, that so many actresses want to become bookfluencers. For Johnson, it’s not solely about material gain: She hasn’t optionedyet, merely thought about how she’d go about adapting it while acknowledging that adaptation is hard. For others, of course, it’sabout the cash.
Beyond the realm of clubs, there are also celebrities who simply want to be seen reading books, ideally good ones. In this category we find the professionally gorgeous people Kaia Gerber and Kendall Jenner. Gerber technically has a “book club,” which consists of her, including titles by Dolly Alderton and Annie Ernaux.
My working theory about all of this is straightforwardly cynical: Celebrities mostly use books to add another layer to their personae, carrying around status handbags shaped like piles of paper with pages.
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