What readers are saying: "I couldn't stop reading this book as it took you inside both Hollywood history and parts of the Civil Rights Movement. A wonderful, heartfelt novel." At the dawn of the new ...

This is Basinger and Wasson’s and the AFI’s oral history of Hollywood, and it’s a fine one. But remember, as the man said, Nobody knows anything. Lisa Schwarzbaum, a former critic at ...

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In The Golden Hour he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, history and lament for a vanishing world.

The latest work of historical non-fiction from Meg Waite Clayton, 'Typewriter Beach,' looks at the hurdles women face in ...

His mother, Katherine McGaffey, is one of those beautiful LA women who might've been a successful actress or model. But she's short on drive. What she has is high literary taste: When she and Fred ...

Spanning more than half a century and speckled with the caviar of famous names, this isn’t a tell-all, pity party or diatribe. Mixing things up with the brio of an expert bartender, Specktor serves an ...

Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen’s “Hollywood Behind the Lens” is a visual history of the film industry as drawn from the Bison Archives, a photographic collection focused on Hollywood ...

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In The Golden Hour he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, history and lament for a vanishing world.