(The only Facebook page bearing the writer's name shows a bearded, curly-haired young hipster with a goofy expression).
Hipsters have shown a taste for taking everything from the crackle of vinyl to tatty Barbour jackets and dragging them back into fashion.
In today's literary circles, absinthe is more an amusement than a muse – showing up as a hipster cocktail at themed book-launch parties.
My presentation partner Nate, of Skullcandy, the hipster headphone brand, showed a video of the co-founder of DC Shoes participating in the motorsport Gymkhana (essentially a NASCAR racer tearing around a Hollywood set).
For a literary hipster, he has never shown a conspicuous interest in sartorial fashions.
Here are a few covers that portray Brooklyn and its denizens: "I wanted to show the hipster in his natural habitat, so it had to be set in Brooklyn," Ricardo Liniers, the Argentine cartoonist behind this week's cover, says.
"I wanted to show the hipster in his natural habitat, so it had to be set in Brooklyn," Ricardo Liniers, the Argentine cartoonist behind this week's cover, says.
By Mina Kaneko and Françoise Mouly March 9, 2015 "I wanted to show the hipster in his natural habitat, so it had to be set in Brooklyn," Ricardo Liniers, the Argentine cartoonist behind this week's cover, says.
On social networks, there are satirical quizzes that show readers how to distinguish a hipster from a jihadist.
