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Gawker's 'Status Galley' Book Club: Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed

Foster Kamer · 07/12/09 09:45PM

Publishers release "advance reader copies" or "galleys" of books for the New York Literary Elite to have before the masses and Oprah ruin them for you. Being spotted with some merits certain kinds of "status"...that we're about to ruin.