Pure Hollywood: And Other StoriesPure Hollywood is pure gold.Ottessa Moshfegh The sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, National Book Award finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt. In one eponymous novella and ten stories, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion to a young mother

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" reclaiming the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot

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