Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands

Find yourself in the midst of a heated battle over a sitcom laugh track. Learn to get away with spectacular crimes. Get lost with the reindeer people in the mountains of Mongolia. . In Lost in Mongolia a collection of Tad Friends most original witty and wide-ranging articles and essays from The New Yorker Esquire and Outside we are taken on a cultural tour of global proportions. Friend reports from the entertainment mecca of Hollywood on topics that range from the life and death of River Phoenix to the widespread plagiarism of movie ideas to why celebrity profiles are always dreadful. He critiques the larger American culture with articles such as White Trash Nation In Praise of Middlebrow and a brief rumination on what it means when your girlfriend steals and wears your favorite shirt. Readers will also journey to foreign lands and American outposts as Friend goes on the trail of the Marcos dynasty in the Philippines is harassed in Morocco and digs up buried treasure in Sun Valley.. Lost in Mongolia is a one-of-a-kind collection from a refreshingly candid and well-traveled journalist.