![]() ![]() A friend gave this counterculture bible to me when I was in college, at a time when I was slogging through books written by a bunch of 19th-century writers who made reading feel like hard work. Book that changed your life: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. But I think anyone who is interested in Old Hollywood would love what she writes about people like Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe. I'm a journalist who interviews celebrities and I live in Los Angeles so it's riveting stuff for me. In this book, Walls explains how and why the thin line between "news" and "gossip" has vanished over the years. ![]() I was telling everyone about her writing years before The Glass Castle. Book you're an evangelist for: Dish by Jeannette Walls is so entirely compelling. It's a love letter to the '90s, and a story about the complexities of friendships and the secrets that can ultimately destroy us. Her first novel, The Drifter (Morrow), is about a group of friends whose lives are changed forever by a violent event they experience in college. ![]() Before leaving New York City for the West Coast, Christine Lennon was an editor at W, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. ![]()
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