‘You’ Author Caroline Kepnes on Next Installment of Popular Book Series
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“I love the obsessive mind, and I’ve always been an obsessive person,” says author Caroline Kepnes, whose talent for the all-consuming has benefited book publishers and Hollywood showrunners alike for the past seven years.In 2014, Kepnes published the thriller “You,” introducing readers to Joe Goldberg, a bookish heartthrob whose highbrow taste and social media know-how made him a dream lover for unsuspecting women — before he eventually revealed himself as a serial killer. A thoroughly modern antihero, portrayed by Penn Badgley on the Netflix original series based on Kepnes’ books, the character of Goldberg is a dangerous and charismatic mirror to our Instagram-crafted identities.