He Read, She Read

Gary Cooper, on the set of A Farewell to Arms, reading the Hemingway novel that inspired the film. Are there such things as “girl books” and “boy books”? By Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz I t’s an image that has been mocked and satirized incessantly on the Internet: a mustachioed, twentysomething man on the subway pulls out his book , cracks open the creaseless spine, and stares intently down at the page, one hand pensively tapping his chin—the very picture of erudition. You catch a glimpse of the cover—it’s The Sun Also Rises. (If you’re unlucky enough to go on a date with this man, he may ask if you’ve heard of it.) But it’s a phenomenon that goes far beyond just the Performative Bro. It’s the Lit Girl from your liberal-arts college who READ ON