Book 1: Burning In Water Drowning In Flame by Charles Bukowski Reading them took a month, during which I listened to the song “Adore You” three thousand times, came to better appreciate Harry’s influences, and completely changed my opinion of whether Harry’s ex Camille Rowe has good taste in anything. I picked the five books which best embody Harry’s taste: the kind of books that a 16-year-old skateboarder would shoplift, or books that are cultural signifiers for white women who work in media. I strongly relate to the impulse to give men books and figured, how better to insert myself into Harry’s relationship than by reading some books his lover suggested? As he told Rolling Stone, “I was dating someone who gave me some books I felt like I had to read them because she’d think I was a dummy if I didn’t read them.” Whoever this woman was, I wanted to be friends with her. There are many obvious reasons for doing this, but what sold me is that Harry finally became a reader because of a woman. Reading is Harry’s thing, Harry is my thing, and so I decided to read the books that Harry has read. He recently told Rolling Stone that while reading was never really his “thing,” it is now. In the past couple years he has been spotted carrying a book of Sontag out of the gym and buying The Year of Magical Thinking at the Strand.
But the only performatively literate celebrity I care about is Harry Styles. Kendall Jenner was photographed poolside reading Literally Show Me A Healthy Person Emily Ratajkowski couldn’t stop posting about Normal People Gigi Hadid - presumably mid-existential crisis - walked out of a building holding The Stranger by Camus. Celebrities are just like us, the saying goes, and in 2019 I found that to be true: Just like me, celebrities were extremely beautiful women performatively reading highbrow literature.
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