<DIV>“<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><BR><br> 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>.<br><br> 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.</div>