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	The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog: Best Hollywood Novels
		While all his (very funny) novels are set in Hollywood, of his cell phone trilogy (including I'm Losing You and Still Holding), the best is the Dickensian I'll Let You Go.
		David Freeman's short story collection A Hollywood Education is also better than his novel, A Hollywood Life.
		Set in the early days of Hollywood is Queer People by Carroll and Gerritt Graham.
	reporter.blogs.com /risky/2006/01/best_hollywood_.html (617 words)

	The Hollywood Novel: Gender and Lacanian Tragedy in Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays - Critical Essay Style - Find ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The novel is unique within the subgenre of the Hollywood novel since it is one of the very few that focuses exclusively on the effects of the culture industry on women.
		Hollywood novelists, like modernists, encode mass culture as a "feminine" discourse that functions as a co nvenient other for the sanctified, but beleaguered aesthetic discourse--a discourse, moreover, that is based on patriarchal, subject-object epistemology.
		Day of the Locust established the ideological project of the Hollywood novel, a project that casts the artist as flawed subject who cannot distance himself from the desire that is generated by Hollywood for an inaccessible, impenetrable object (figured by a beautiful, bad actress).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_34/ai_66496015 (935 words)

	Leigh Brackett
		The last was a departure for Brackett, since until then, all of her science fiction had been in the form of novels and short stories rather than screenplays.
		Her first novel, "No Good from a Corpse", published in 1944, was a hard-boiled mystery novel in the tradition of Raymond Chandler.
		Hollywood director Howard Hawks was so impressed by this novel that he had his secretary call in "this guy Brackett" to help William Faulkner write the script for "The Big Sleep" (1946).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/le/Leigh_Brackett.html (644 words)

	Style Journal
		Novels are full of what “he said” and “she said,” yet formalist critics often listen so intently to the voice of the narrator that they ignore entirely the things that characters say to one another.
		Hollywood novelists, like modernists, encode mass culture as a “feminine” discourse that functions as a convenient other for the sanctified, but beleaguered aesthetic discourse—a discourse, moreover, that is based on patriarchal, subject-object epistemology.
		Herein lies the novel’s distinctiveness within the canon of the Hollywood novel: unlike earlier, male-written Hollywood novels whose tragedy is a consummately modernist tragedy, Play It As It lays is best read as a “postmodern tragedy” according to which the narcissistic, empty subject is infatuated with death in actual or symbolic forms.
	www.engl.niu.edu /style/archives/vol34n1.html (1732 words)

	Los Angeles Fiction: Novels & Stories Set In L.A. & Southern California
		The novel follows the fortunes of one moviemaking family through most of the 20th century, across three generations, focusing primarily on the middle scion, AJ Jastrow, a pushy, nervy, cocksure producer whose career ranges from the post-WWII period to the millennium.
		Throughout the novel, Bailey spends his days in the courtroom and his evenings at celebrity-studded soirees; names such as Heidi Fleiss, Elizabeth Taylor, and Kirk Douglas punctuate the narrative as Dunne comments on the case, the sensibilities of both the accused and his accusers, and the roles of race, fame, and guilt in America today.
		This clever debut novel by the creator of Hill St. Blues, NYPD Blue and other hit TV shows is as smooth and rich as the name-brand Chardonnays preferred by many of the book's fabulously conflicted Tinseltown characters.
	www.cultureplanet.com /lafict.htm (1333 words)

	West_Nathanael_ca
		The Hollywood scene proves it is not a glamorous world, but is instead a corrupt assortment of second-rate actors, writers and artists twisted and self-absorbed by their own desires.
		Tod and two other men, although in Hollywood for different reasons, are all driven by their obsession for the aspiring actress, Faye Greener, each trying to gain her love in their own selfish ways.
		Hollywood Boulevard - Mentioned several times in The Day of the Locust, this significant street in Los Angeles, was often the center of travel along Los Angeles for characters in the novel.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/west_nathanael_ca.htm (933 words)

	Shakespeare's grave: the British fiction of Hollywood - William Shakespeare - Critical Essay Twentieth Century ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In several other novels of Hollywood by British writers, Shakespeare (or another eminent representative of the British literary tradition) makes an appearance--comically out of place and generally associated with mortality.
		The recur rent trope of Shakespeare's California grave encapsulates an important theme in the British fiction of Hollywood: Hollywood is the site of conflicts between high and low culture, between literature and film, and between British tradition and American cultural acquisitiveness.
		Hollywood fiction is a regional literature of sorts, but unlike most regional literatures it is written almost entirely by outsiders, by people not native to the region.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_3_47/ai_86230575 (680 words)

	The Chrysanthemum Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thad, the center of their world, has been at war for most of his life with both his horrendous parents and the ghost of his twin brother, who died under mysterious circumstances when he was 12.
		As is often the case in Wagner’s novels, art and life are caught up in a fight to the finish, but that’s only part of the bigger picture.
		For Wagner, Hollywood is a self-sustaining ecosystem where art is merely a means by which life feeds on life — a point of view that would sound cynical were it not so authentically imagined.
	www.free-times.com /reviews/book_reviews/chrysanthemum.html (745 words)

	CNN - A Hemingway Retrospective - Hemingway and Hollywood
		Few people today expect a movie to provide more than a nod of recognition to the novel from which the film was made, and few writers publish a novel that isn't written with a Hollywood producer in mind.
		Hollywood's first adaptation of a Hemingway work was "A Farewell to Arms," produced in 1932 by Paramount's Frank Borzage.
		The most famous adaptation of a Hemingway novel is "To Have and Have Not," produced by Warner Brothers in 1944 with Humphrey Bogart and the 18-year-old Lauren Bacall in her first film.
	cnn.com /SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway/stories/hollywood/index.html (945 words)

	'Out There' looks at Hollywood's dark side - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Hollywood, too often, renders novels into sausage, but the other way 'round -- Hollywood into novels -- things sometimes turn out somewhat more refined.
		The novel's fundamental fault is a wandering point of view or shifting narrator.
		Apparently the point of view is that of Chester Dowling, Superior's retired chief of production, recounting in 1988 what he has learned of the past, but this is not consistent, and narration occasionally seems to adhere to Roarke and elsewhere.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/books/s_418442.html (612 words)

	Gigi Levangie Grazer \| press
		Her novels prick the pretension of haute Hollywood; she doesn't want to live it.
		novels "Rescue Me" (currently in film development) and the recent bestseller "Maneater," Gigi Grazer would seem as much a part of the Hollywood crowd as her husband, mega-producer Brian Grazer.
		Gigi's new novel, The Starter Wife, a wickedly funny novel about one woman redefining herself after years of marriage to a Hollywood studio head.
	www.gigigrazer.com /bio/press.html (298 words)

	I hate Hollywood, but I love LA (Seattle Weekly)
		This observational mode is typical of the Hollywood novel—the writer/protagonist/narrator watches the film colony in a kind of cynical, hard-boiled shock.
		The young man visits the Hollywood icon (a stand-in for Movieland itself) and finds there a decaying bitch goddess, capable of the most callous decadence—and he himself becomes entrapped in her game.
		The celebration and reviling of decadence are the Hollywood novel's raison d'etre.
	www.seattleweekly.com /film/9830/film-dederer2.php (1077 words)

	Surfrider Foundation's Malibu Chapter - In The News
		As the screenwriter of "Stepmom" (starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon) and author of the sexy Hollywood novels "Rescue Me" (currently in film development) and the recent bestseller "Maneater," Gigi Grazer would seem as much a part of the Hollywood crowd as her husband, mega-producer Brian Grazer.
		(Brian's resume is a list of Hollywood box office hits both in film and television from "24" to "A Beautiful Mind.") Her articles appear in popular magazines like People where she recently described her trip with her husband to the Academy Awards.
		However, Grazer is not the typical Hollywood diva.
	www.surfrider.org /malibu/tidepools.htm (611 words)

	Ellery Queen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Later EQ novels will often have the most startling surprises in their solutions; this book runs out of steam two thirds of the way through, and its solution adds only a single new clue, together with the identity of the murderer.
		The novel was influenced by the realist school, and is discussed in that article.
		The novel is an attack on McCarthyism; its cultural background is discussed in the article on Charlotte Armstrong.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/queen1.htm (17661 words)

	Ellery Queen - Mystery Books
		EQ's Hollywood novels are likable in their storytelling, in a fairly mild way.
		Three EQ novels, The Four of Hearts (1938), Calamity Town (1942), and The Murderer is a Fox (1945), all have similar puzzle plots.
		The three novels, The Four of Hearts (1938), Calamity Town (1942), and The Murderer is a Fox (1945), all have similar puzzle plots.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art29705.asp (5841 words)

	VIDALESSAY?
		It was a lean novel that told its story mostly through dialogue, and 16 years later, Vidal said of it 'The coolness of tone, the precision of style reflect inner tension.
		Vidal's Washington novels have been spoken of frequently, but little has been observed about the links between the recurring images of Hollywood in his novels.
		Creel says his dream of using Hollywood to fight the war "is like advertising, though the President doesn't care for the word." It is, as well, like Paul Himmel, the ad man who sold the world a new Messiah in Vidal's novel 36 years earlier.
	www.pitt.edu /~kloman/essay.html (2653 words)

	TALES OF THREE CITIES
		The content of Wagner's satire of Hollywood is not particularly fresh, and the sexual grotesques that fill his book are the common currency of fiction these days.
		Now he has written a novel, probably the first ever that was preceded in its author's oeuvre by a book containing the entry "Dukakis, Michael" in its index.
		But for the partnership between a city and a novel to work, the novelist must make the rhythms and textures of the town as vivid as his characters, and inseparable from them.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/961007/bks.cities.html (874 words)

	Michael A. Hollister Film Review of Good Night, and Good Luck
		Once again the scapegoat is Senator Joe McCarthy, who had nothing to do with Hollywood but exposed Soviet spies employed in sensitive government jobs.
		The title Good Night, and Good Luck was the sign-off line of the hero, the deified CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, who attacked McCarthy in a confrontation on television in 1954 that helped end the Senator's campaign against Communists in government and contributed to his death about three years later.
		Now the rebels in Hollywood were honoring the best recruiting films for al-Qaeda.
	www.michaelhollister.com /reviews/GoodNightandGoodLuck.htm (1083 words)

	Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		KNX was the last station to broadcast from Hollywood when it left CBS Columbia Square for a studio in the Miracle Mile in 2005.
		Students who live in Hollywood are zoned to Vine Street Elementary, Ramona Elementary, Gardner Elementary, Valley View Elementary School, Cherimoya Grammar School, Bancroft Middle, Le Conte Middle School, Christ the King Elementary, and Hollywood High School.
		The parade goes down Hollywood Boulevard and is broadcast in the LA area on KTLA, and around the United States on Tribune-owned stations and the WGN superstation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles,_California (2728 words)

	terrilleelankford.com \|\| BLONDE LIGHTNING
		A man perpetually trying to find a toehold in Hollywood, Clyde is the kind of guy who, upon learning of the murder of protagonist Mark Hayes' roommate, blithely asks the distraught man if he'd like to read one of his scripts.
		But when Mace Thornburg, a PR hack with a grudge against Clyde's girlfriend and half of Hollywood starts harassing the couple and a string of deadly accidents involve Clyde and those around him, the question is not whether Thornburg will be killed but who won't want to score this ultimate credit.
		But for all its wit and wisecracks, the novel is also a paean to films and the people who make them, the ones who don't make the front page of Variety or the Hollywood Reporter.
	www.terrillleelankford.com /blonde_lightning.html (2585 words)

	eBooks.com - Hollywood eBook
		Over a twenty-five period, Gore Vidal created a series of seven novels, which together are referred to as his American Chronicle novels.
		These novels capture American history in fiction in a way in which few writers have attempted, let alone succeeded.
		Hollywood is the sixth volume in the series.
	www.ebooks.com /cj.asp?IID=164584 (336 words)

	Fitzgerald and the Movies
		During two of his three stays in Hollywood, he was given choice writing assignments and was paid well for his work.
		This brief stay in Hollywood had significant consequences, however, because Fitzgerald met two figures who would prove important to his later novels.
		In Hollywood he quarreled with his collaborator, Marcel de Sano, and their completed screenplay was rejected as too somber a treatment of a woman who advances herself through sex.
	www.sc.edu /fitzgerald/essays/movies.html (1723 words)

	SparkNotes: Miss Lonelyhearts: Context
		In 1935, he moved to Hollywood for good, working as a screenwriter and collecting material for The Day of the Locusts, which was ultimately published in 1939.
		This novel's tales of smashed hopes and corrupt power only mirrored West's personal experience only somewhat: though unemployed at first, he later made a decent run as a screenwriter, contributing to at least twelve movies made between 1936 and 1940.
		West's focus on the interior dream-life of the masses found a perfect outlet in his Hollywood novel The Day of the Locust, but it was the New York novel Miss Lonelyhearts that gave West his first critical success.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/lonelyhearts/context.html (722 words)

	Beatrice.com: DATELINE LOS ANGELES: Hollywood Novels, Take One
		You might remember last week when I commented on Michiko Kakutani's pan of Elizabeth Frank's Cheat and Charmer, suggesting that her "use of the press kit blurbs as a bludgeon against the author" was a bit lazy.
		The main problem I'm finding is something Kakutani mentioned early in her review, when she compares the novel to "an old-fashioned Hollywood sudser, one of those glossy Douglas Sirk melodramas." Cheat and Charmer seems to equate a sweeping grand style with grand significance, and as a result the strokes can be extremely broad.
		I'm having a better reaction to Cathleen Schine's She Is Me, although "Hollywood novel" might be a bit reductive in this case, even if one of the main characters is an academic who's been lured out to LA to write a screenplay.
	www.beatrice.com /archives/000833.html (698 words)

	Hollywood and Anti-Semitism - Cambridge University Press
		Eastern European Jewish immigrants are often credited with building a film industry during the first decade of the twentieth century that they dominated by the 1920s.
		Analogous to the Jewish Question of the nineteenth century, which was concerned with the full participation of Jews within public life, the Hollywood Question of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s addressed the Jewish population within mass media.
		Carr's Hollywood and anti-Semitism demonstrates the degree to which the experience was equally true at home.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521571189 (355 words)

	'Illustrative Literature' Catches On, With Help From Hollywood, Graphic Novels Gain Popularity - CBS News
		Bolstered by comic writers and artists bent on telling more complex tales and by a string of Hollywood movies adapted from graphic novels - including the new "Road to Perdition" - publishers, booksellers and readers are beginning to take note.
		Cosmetically, the graphic novel resembles any other book on the shelf, covered with hardback or glossy trade paper, printed with standard paper and plastic-wrap free.
		Hollywood has adapted movies from many graphic novels, including last year's "Ghost World" and "From Hell," the Jack the Ripper thriller, starring Johnny Depp.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/07/22/print/main515863.shtml (915 words)

	Hollywood Mogul 3: Award Winning Performance \| ManifestoGames.com
		Carey had gotten closer to the Hollywood life than I had and he gave me a lot of insights about the “management by committee” styles that forced mediocrity on so many of the films we see today.
		You can’t always decide when to make the ancillary products (action figures, apparel, computers/video games, fast-food tie-ins, and novelizations), but the types of properties you choose and the production values/budgets/star appeal you give them will determine who is “coming to you” in that line.
		Hollywood Mogul 3 proves that, as with Godfather 2, sequels can be better than the creative breakthroughs that spawn them.
	www.manifestogames.com /hollywoodmogul3word (2136 words)

	David Marlett Interview
		I had been watching the industry for a while, and had seen that quite a few novels were getting picked up for film before publication.
		It had the usual, a tag opening line, a brief overview of the story, some about me, and some about why I thought their agency was right for the material and for me as a writer.
		By the way, I also have another novel in the works, called Red Chip 7, which was originally titled "Manslaughter." It drew a lot of attention as well, and continues to do so.
	www.hollywoodlitsales.com /archives/marlett.shtml (1374 words)

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