I Met Someone

Bruce Wagner's newest book, 'I Met Someone,' tells the story of a Hollywood starlet who is searching for a daughter she had many years ago while also dealing with the emotional strife of losing an unborn child. Admittedly, this isn't a book that I would normally be drawn to, but after seeing it surf......more

When I pick up a book by Bruce Wagner I know I will be staggered by the beauty of his prose (see quote below), laugh at his unfailingly wicked sense of humor, and be left with unanswered questions--meaning, I will ponder it for a long time after I put it down. I Met Someone, delivers on all these co......more

Cousin Brucie does it again, in a riff on the MULHOLLAND/PERSONA/3 WOMEN pairing that is crueler, more cosmically astounding and at least AS tender as all of the above. Read it while listening to...[URL not allowed]......more

I liked the writing: these characters were presented in full, Hollywood talk ("love Hollywood") which was fun to read. The plot is very up to date, and the setting is luxury.......more

An ambitiously trashy tale that draws upon the usual Wagner tropes - lifestyles of the rich and malcontent intertwined with mysterious figures from the seedy Los Angeles underbelly. Wagner's expansive writing style creates a uniquely operatic slice-of-life; he drops names, satirizes pseudo-spiritual......more