Who? That horse-face from "Slut in the City," one of those chick shows that makes women seem stupid? Now she's, what, the owner of her own "book club" and "fashion imprint" for gum-chewers who like chick lit?
This hilarious/horrifying puff piece on Horse Face tells us that she loves libraries. One of the good things is that she can visit one and nobody will burst into spontaneous applause or come asking for a selfie:
"...people have their heads down. Nobody is interested in me. It's such a wonderful place for people to disappear."
Maybe nobody is interested in Sarah Jessica Parker is because...at this point, with "Sex and the City" DVDs not selling for three bucks in MY local NYPL's library/bookstore...WE'RE JUST NOT INTO HER.
Fact is, anyone walking into a library is prone to get hostile looks. A library is, after all, HOME to the homeless, so YOU are trespassing. It's home to crazies who grab all of the days newspapers ("I'm READING THESE"). It's also an old age home where anyone with a small noisy child is the target of hateful glares.
If Sarah thinks a library is "a wonderful place for people to disappear," is might be because some of the transients who make the library their home all day carry knives and hammers and aren't afraid to indicate that YOU will disappear if you get too close.
Libraries are also an excellent place for psychotics to disappear...into the bathroom...and stay there for hours. It's where a lot of them spend their hours in deep contemplation of the feces they've left in the toilet.
Idiot actresses are always putting their foot in it, much the same way as homeless in the library put their socks in the sink. Leave it around for a while, it make sense. To somebody. Right, a library sink SHOULD be available for the homeless to wash their socks. And yes, Sarah, a library SHOULD be a wonderful place. But it rarely is, because it's a free space for psychopaths and users. And apparently has-been actresses.
That Parker gets her own "fiction imprint" should impress nobody, least of all librarians. What's SHE mean to the book world? Nothing. Her name on a book is like somebody naming their pet fish. NOT impressive to many people.
Parker seems to be hoping that making nice to libraries will mean that libraries will buy dozens and dozens of copies of whatever books she publishes. No, Sarah, today's libraries are strapped for cash, are mostly flophouses for idiots, and in the case of my nearest local library, more of an Internet cafe.
The first floor has been gutted with bookshelves replaced by tables and computer terminals. Same with the second floor. As with regular bookstores, browsing is discouraged. You want a book? Go sit and wait for your turn at the computer, dial up the NYPL website, and order what books or DVDS or CDs you'd like. These will be reserved for you.
That's another thing, Sarah. DVDS and CDs have taken over a lot of space at the branches of the NYPL because people would rather watch movies and TV shows (not yours, though) instead of read.
The article mentions the "launch" (books as boats) of her first title. It will be Fatima Farheen Mirza's debut, "A Place for Us." Which should be subtitled, "A Place for Us Muslim Women Because We're Trendy, and To Hell with old white guys named Edgar Allan Poe or James Fenimore Cooper. Or even Isaac Bashevis Singer, because we're SO over the Jews. SO over them. Muslim Woman is the new Old Jewish Man. Look, it's one thing to mutter about how the Holocaust actually happened, and it's another to threaten a Fatwa and a Jihad against everyone who doesn't like hummus.
I kid. That was a joke. Ha ha. Not that I'm gonna make a cartoon version of Mohamed.
But, no, it's not likely that a book from Book Mogul and Book Mongrel Sarah Jessica Parker is likely to end up on my shelf OR blipped into my Nook even via a free download courtesy of a Google search of blogs and torrents.
Let's just say that Sarah Jessica Parker and her bunch are not likely to be thinking, "What we need is a good book..." the thinking is, "Let's have ANY book as long as it's from a woman of color, a woman with an ethnic name, or somebody writing a thesis on how slut shaming is horrible and "Sex in the City" is groundbreaking art and every library should have every season."
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