Liz Smith

Anna David's Party Girl, coming out in June. The book tells the tale of a hard-core, hard-drinking, hard-drugging celebrity journalist who is hired to document her shallow sobriety-challenged daily life just as she is trying to clean up her act. It is very roman a clef, and the fun will be trying to figure who is really whom. But in the end, we're advised, it's an inspirational story—a triumph over the red carpet.