“I did have to break up with one guy because he was very keen on Ayn Rand,” said Laura Miller, a book critic for Salon. “He was sweet and incredibly decent despite all the grandiosely heartless ‘philosophy’ he espoused, but it wasn’t even the ideology that did it. I just thought Rand was a hilariously bad writer, and past a certain point I couldn’t hide my amusement.” (Members of theatlasphere.com, a dating and fan site for devotees of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead,” might disagree.)

Things I have learned from this article:

• I should always carry multiple books, so I can accessorize my reading with the social situation.
• There is an Ayn Rand Fan Dating site and it has almost 8,000 “dating profiles.” I especially like that it’s only for fans of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. If you liked We the Living, they don’t want you.