My struggle to be a novelist when male writers were gods and women couldn't get jobs. Steamy sex with James Dean, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Philip Roth, and William Gaddis. Only Playmate with fiction in the same issue. "Wry, gossipy, poignant,feminist." Sunday New York Times Book Review, full page, 11/19/06.

A genuinely subversive book that shows how we make flawed celebrities into icons that determine literary standards." Rain Taxi, Review of Books, Minneapolis, Spring 2008.