"Book Groupies" and Other Sticky Situations
LA-based photographer, A Shaded View on Fashion contributor, "CUTEST PLASTIC CARRY-OUT FORK" contest impresario, and now literary escort Dino Dinco caps his sensational multi-part travelogue on accompanying Bruce Benderson, author of The Romanian, to stops on his West Coast tour, with a cannily observed musing on "book groupies":
Book groupies are an odd bunch and I've seen quite a few on this tour. Music groupies are such obvious, whorish messes (in that gross and fun way that whorish messes are), but book groupies think they're being sly, like no one was supposed to notice their raging book-boners as they tried to line up a "private reading" with Bruce. (I suppose there's less vomiting backstage with book groupies than the musical equivalent.) In the middle of the night, one of Bruce's groupies got the hotel room numbers wrong and showed up at MY room wearing nothing but boxers and flip flops, a sticky copy of "The Romanian" in hand. Since I had insomnia, I was wide awake. He wasn't bad looking and I tried to detain him, asking him if he was curious as to what MY favorite passages of the book were, but Anonymous Book Groupie simply gave me, "Oh, you're not Bruce" and flip flopped himself down the hall to Bruce's room. Just in case anyone might have heard me getting dismissed, I absently yelled out, "And don't come back!"
A Shaded View on Fashion, where Dino is a regular contributor, doesn't file his entries all in one category, but you can read the rest of this essay (and see lots of fun snapshots from the road) here, and previous installments in the series can be found here here and here.
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