“About as funny as anything I’ve ever read.” – Graydon Carter, NY Times 2025A lost Hollywood classic returns. A must read for fans of Seth Rogen’s The Studio — the original Hollywood takedown that paved the way.

Hollywood has always been messy — but in 1930, it was gloriously unhinged. Queer People: A Madcap Jazz Age Satire of Hollywood’s Scandalous Eccentrics said the quiet part out loud: the studio system ran on ambition, spin, and scandal, and everyone was in on the game.

Carroll & Garrett Graham, who actually lived inside that machine, deliver a cast of actors, fixers, and publicity sharks scrambling through a town where fame is a hustle and morality is optional. Shrouded in obscurity for fifty years, this restored edition brings the novel roaring back with its full original text plus two smart, lively essays and other historical artifacts that unpack its history and why it still hits a nerve today.

Sharp, funny, and shockingly honest, Queer People shows Hollywood before it learned to hide the bodies — metaphorically, of course. Follow Whitey, a broke, gin-soaked newspaperman who blows into Prohibition-era Tinseltown. Backstabbing, blackmail, casting couches, murder — all washed down at wild bootleg-and-jazz parties where nobody means a word they say. Real moguls, real stars, real dirt — Irving Thalberg, John Gilbert, Louella Parsons, and many more — barely disguised.