Andy Simionato

Turn this book over, Mike Parr (1994)

Donald Barr is the author of Space Relations, published in 1973. The science-fiction story is about sex slavery. Donald Barr’s son is the Trump appointed US Attorney General, William Barr. William Barr is currently investigating the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died while in custody while being investigated for sex slavery. Entire book available at the ~~ Internet Archive

An actor using a (fake) book prop in a tv advertisement became so popular that a publisher hired a ghost-writer to write the book and the actor to perform as the author. It became a (real) best-seller in the U.K. Fly fishing: memories of angling days by J.R. Hartley (1991)

Clam book in It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, dir. 2014)

'Jean Tinguely, Alles beweegt!', THOTH

"I spent the afternoon in a bookstore. There were no books in it. None had been printed for nearly half a century... No longer was it possible to browse among shelves, to weigh volumes in the hand, to feel their heft, the promise of ponderous reading. The bookstore resembled, instead, an electronic laboratory. The books were crystals with recorded contents. They could be read with the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it." –'Return from the stars' Stanislaw Lem, 1961 (This translation 1980)