Kill Fee

Over at Newsday, I have a list of great Hollywood novels–one of my favorite literary genres. The painful part was choosing only five. Here they are.
Other contenders include:
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald (also the Pat Hobby stories)
The Goodbye People, Gavin Lambert
What Makes Sammy Run, Budd Schulberg
After Many a […]

A review of Geoffrey Nowell-Smith’s Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s and Vanessa R. Schwartz’s It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture in The Los Angeles Times: link.