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A breathless, gossipy, and utterly addictive front-row seat to the brilliant, drug-fueled trainwreck that birthed modern American cinema. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Easy riders, raging bulls.
- frenetic
- drug-fueled
- chaotic
- grimy-glamour
- 01
Hollywood Babylon
Kenneth Anger
A lurid, gleefully wicked tour through the rotting foundations of the world's most glamorous company town.
- 02
Wiseguy
Nicholas Pileggi · 1985
A breathless, unvarnished plunge into the intoxicating highs and paranoid lows of a life lived entirely outside the law.
- 03
Valley of the dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 1966
A glittering, pill-popping descent into the glamorous and ruthless underbelly of mid-century show business.
- 04
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe · 1968
A kaleidoscopic, hyperkinetic road trip through the birth of the 1960s counterculture that reads like a literary hallucination.
- 05
Conversations with Wilder
Cameron Crowe
Pull up a chair and listen to a sharp, funny Hollywood legend spill decades of behind-the-scenes secrets to an eager fellow filmmaker.
- 06
The killing of the unicorn
Peter Bogdanovich
A grief-stricken, deeply personal indictment of the Hollywood machine and the exploitation of innocence.
- 07
The Pixar Touch
David Andrew Price
A lively, behind-the-scenes look at the collision of artistic genius and high-stakes corporate maneuvering.
- 08
Role Models
John Waters
A gleefully subversive self-portrait painted through intimate, amusing, and happily horrifying profiles of eccentric inspirations.
- 09
Postcards from the Edge
Carrie Fisher · 1991
A razor-sharp, darkly hilarious plunge into the glittering, toxic deep end of Hollywood and the messy work of getting sober.
- 10
Slow days, fast company
Eve Babitz
A sun-drenched, martini-soaked love letter to the glamorous decay of 1970s Los Angeles.
- 11
From reverence to rape
Molly Haskell · 1974
A sharp, paradigm-shifting deep dive into the silver screen that challenges everything you thought you knew about women in film.
- 12
Masters of Doom
David Kushner
A caffeine-fueled, cinematic ride through the obsessive late-night coding sessions that birthed modern gaming and destroyed a legendary friendship.
