But, come on, you can still be an asshole if you read books! But did you conceive him as a satire of a certain kind of young, educated New Yorker? Is he your way of getting back at the literary snobs?Ĭaroline Kepnes: I wanted to write a love letter to reading and bookstores because it was killing me when people would joke about books being over, when I would see bookstores closing. Obviously, Joe Goldberg is an extreme example of this kind of person. Neal Pollack: You, both the book and the TV show, really brings to life a recognizable type: The Creepy Lit Guy. I emailed with Kepnes about books and bookstores and weird literary obsessions. Now, just like Beck herself, we can’t get away from Joe Goldberg. Then, this year, You premiered on Netflix, and it’s suddenly a huge hit. Last year, Lifetime turned You into a TV series, which won lots of critical praise but few viewers. She wrote a sequel, Hidden Bodies, set in Los Angeles. The book is also a searing satire of the New York literary scene. Kepnes turns romantic-comedy tropes on their head, and makes Joe weirdly appealing at the same time. In 2014, TV writer Caroline Kepnes published an unusual crime thriller called You. Her story of a creepy bookstore employee named Joe Goldberg, who stalks and seduces Guinevere Beck, a vulnerable young New York writer, takes place entirely as Joe’s internal monologue.
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