belletrist

Before answering my questions, the fashion-loving co-founder of online book club Belletrist and mother of a 3-year-old son had one of her own.

Noon: Bag a bunch of books From there I’d go to Skylight Books and pick up a haul of books for Belletrist.

A born-and-bred Upper Midwesterner, Schjeldahl was a belletrist as a writer — a once fashionable, now vaguely disreputable genre of fiction, poetry and essay writing with an acute concern for “fine language,” which he, virtually alone, managed to make worthwhile for art criticism during a dense era of academically minded theory.

“Just because something is popular in our feed does not mean it’s popular in the world,” said Karah Preiss, a founder, with the actress Emma Roberts, of the online book club Belletrist.

Emma Roberts’ book club, Belletrist, selected it as a pick, and the actress recently voiced the audiobook version.