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Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes)

Autor Nancy Spiller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 ian 2009
Food writer FW plays host to the most glamorous dinner parties in Hollywood and writes a column about her brushes with fame. But everything is not as it seems - in reality, FW has a very active imagination and none of her famous dinner parties ever took place. Enter a glossy food magazine editor who is desperate for an invitation and makes FW an offer she can't refuse. Now, FW must conquer her fear and finally throw an actual dinner party - her first in 10 years.
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ISBN-13: 9781582434513
ISBN-10: 1582434514
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Group
Colecția Counterpoint
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Nancy Spiller is a writer and artist currently living in Los Angeles. A third generation California native, she was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a graduate of San Francisco State University. She served as staff feature writer at the San Jose Mercury News and its Sunday magazine, West , and at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. She was editor and internationally syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate's Entertainment News Service. Her essays and articles have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, McCall's, Mother Jones, Salon.com, and Coagula Art Journal. Her fiction has appeared in the Rain City Review.

She has studied art at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design and UCLA. Her recent installation and exhibition at L.A. Contemporary Gallery in Culver City, "Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail Project," featured 157 pounds of shredded junk mail, the result of one year's worth collected at her home, accompanied by her Shredded series of paintings and drawings. Art in America lauded it for its humor, resigned pathos and concern with "larger social issues."

She lives with her husband Tom, their dog and two cats at the edge of a preserved coastal canyon on Los Angeles' wild western edge.