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<title>Adrian Grenier&#8217;s Book Entourage, &#8216;Fundragers&#8217;</title>
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<p>Warning: If hipster-than-thou actors who organize things called &#8220;fundragers&#8221; (&#8220;fundraiser&#8221; + &#8220;rager&#8221; as in &#8220;party&#8221; &#8212; get it? <em>Get it</em>?) tend to annoy you, read no further.</p>
<p>Green-leaning <em>Entourage</em> star <strong>Adrian Grenier</strong>, who splits his time between Brooklyn and Los Feliz, decided to launch a book-discussion-dinner club with a few friends. (A book club that by the looks of it [above] apparently requires uniformed security personnel.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-ca-grenier20may20,1,2495321.story?coll=la-celebrity-news&amp;ctrack=3&amp;cset=true" target="_blank">Via the <em>L.A. Times</em></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>For the last three months, Cooke and seven others have been gathering weekly at the Los Feliz home of actor Adrian Grenier and musician and graphic designer <strong>Clark Stiles</strong> to discuss books over dinner. Friends who share a sprawling, Spanish-style house, Grenier and Stiles were already known for their unusual dinner parties, at which the conversation would be structured around a single theme such as infidelity or quantum physics. The book club, Stiles said, evolved out of this, and apparently even infidelity is no match for <strong>Jonathan Safran Foer</strong> when it comes to sparking heated debate. The club&#8217;s first book, <strong>Don DeLillo</strong>&#8216;s novel &#8220;White Noise,&#8221; was universally adored. &#8220;Oh, my God, the best book I&#8217;ve ever read!&#8221; raved <strong>Roxanne Daner</strong>, Stiles&#8217; partner in the graphic design firm Ludlow Kingsley.</p>
<p>Foer&#8217;s &#8220;Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,&#8221; on the other hand, divided the group with &#8220;gimmicky&#8221; devices like having &#8220;seven pages in a row with one word,&#8221; as Stiles described it. Daner defended the approach from a graphic design standpoint, and Grenier responded by ripping a page straight out of the book, asking, &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t this as good as what he&#8217;s doing? Why even have the page?&#8221;</p>
<p>At that point, &#8220;Roxanne almost cried,&#8221; chimed in <strong>Melissa Keller</strong>, an actress and photographer who met Grenier when she had a small part on &#8220;Entourage,&#8221; &#8220;and I was like, yeah! Punk rock!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<li> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-ca-grenier20may20,1,2495321.story?coll=la-celebrity-news&amp;ctrack=3&amp;cset=true" target="_blank">Adrian Grenier&#8217;s bookclub turns heads [<em>LAT</em>]</a>
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