Unofficial Reclassification: A Tale of Facebook Flash-Mobbery

Happy Veterans Day, Mr. Bush. Two days ago, in a glorious feat of Facebook flash-mobbery, two young ladies named Bethel Ruth Solomon (UMass Amherst, '09), and Becky Gool (whose profile is hidden from those who are not her Facebook friends, which we are not) incited what they deftly termed a “literary movement.” The task: To “subversively move George W. Bush's memoir ‘Decision Points’ to the crime section in bookshops,” in order to “make bookshops think twice about where they categorize our generation's greatest war criminals.” Gool and Solomon encourage participants to snap photos of their work, too, and post them on their page, which now boasts nearly six thousand members (some of whom are quite respectable professionals). The pair hope the memoir, which was released on November 9th with a print run of 1.5 million copies, will follow the journey of Tony Blair’s 2010 memoir (“A Journey”), which also managed to find its way via unofficial reclassification to true crime sections around the U.K.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/unofficial-reclassification-a-tale-of-facebook-flash-mobbery
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