Jason Anderson’s debut novel, Showbiz, is a whimsical roman à clef involving fictionalized characters and events inspired by the Kennedy era. The story follows journalist Nathan Grant, who lives in roughly our present day, as he prepares a profile of Jimmy Wynn, a character based on the 1960s stand-up comic Vaughn…
Timothy Taylor
Timothy Taylor is the author of four books, most recently the novel Story House (Knopf, 2006).
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Chasing Celebrity
What happens to a culture that takes Andy Warhol's prediction seriously October 2004
Just after his 31st birthday, Hal Niedzviecki had an epiphany facilitated by Hallmark. It was no doubt the first of its kind for a guy whose life hadn’t been a typically Hallmark affair to that point. He’d been a rebellious teenager (drinking, staying out late, “borrowing” his parents’ credit cards and failing classes). He’d gone on to become a…