Ten Favorite Books of Fiction by Authors Whose Celebrity Predated Their Writing
(Often, when a celebrity publishes a novel, I instinctively dismiss it as a book that hasn’t earned its way into print. This isn’t always fair. Here are ten good—sometimes great—novels or story collections by actors, painters, musicians, and directors, arranged in descending order of celebrity.)
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia)
Shopgirl by Steve Martin (wild and crazy guy)
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave (goth musician and Bad Seed)
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July (director/lead actress of Me and You and Everyone We Know)
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington (Surrealist painter)
Wolf in White Van: A Novel by John Darnielle (of the band The Mountain Goats)
The Quiet Man: Short Stories by John Foxx (an early—and continuing—electropop musician)
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (the creator of Bojack Horseman)
A Stitch in Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #27) by Andrew J. Robinson (Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
The Room by Jonas Karlsson (a film actor, famous in Sweden)
— November 28, 2020