So the Post tries to say my book’s going to piss off the real celebrities who act in fictitious ways in the book. In it you get a mean quote from Alec Baldwin and some other snark. You also get real-celeb portions of the novel.
Wish the reporter, Mandy Stadtmiller, had talked about one of my favorite writers, Bruce Wagner, who mingles reality and fiction beautifully in his own Hollywood novels. Or my hero and friend Bruce Jay Friedman, who in his hilarious 1974 short story “Let’s Hear It For a Beautiful Guy,” has his narrator fantasizing about how he would help Sammy Davis Jr. get some rest. (New Yorker subscribers can read the entire article for free online) here. Can anyone think of other books that mingle real characters with fictitious ones?
Alec Baldwin says PPW “doesn’t sound like a very good book”
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