Dead Stars

<i>Dead Stars</i> is the <i>London Fields</i> of Los Angeles the <i>Ulysses</i> of TMZ culture--an immensely literate fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither.--Tom Bissell <i>GQ </i> <p/>At age thirteen Telma is famous as the world's youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old who's just undergone a mastectomy.... Reeyonna believes that auditioning for pregnant teenage porn will help fulfill her dream of befriending Kanye West.... Jackie a photographer once celebrated for arty nudes of her young daughter is working at a Sears Family Portrait boutique.... And Oscar-winning Michael Douglas searches for meaning while his wife Catherine guest-stars on <i>Glee</i>. <p/>Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami <i>Dead Stars</i> is Bruce Wagner's most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist: post-privacy porn culture a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling disposable narrative where reality-show triumph is the new American narcotic.