Donald Shepherd on LAID BARE:


"The French have a name for this kind of writing

–temoignage–

the literature of the witness; crossing genre, autobiography or reportage, but most important- fact-lived. We reel through sex with stars of both sexes, through brushes with fame and sleaze, and meet the freaks, whores, grifters and producers of the slide-side of Hollywood existence.

Gilmore's odyssey shows an unflinching exploration of the strange paradox in narcissism, with its underlying self-hatred.

Gilmore aims for the heart of a thing–the truth, the thing in itself, and hits the bull’s eye with incredible accuracy. He is one of the today’s most intense and most uncompromising writers... 

A true literary artist.”

 


John Gilmore and James Dean

 


Donald Shepherd is the author of Jack Nicholson, Duke: The Life and Times of John Wayne, 
The Hollow Man–Bing Crosby, and other books 

Crazy Streak by John GilmoreSevered by John GilmoreManson by John GilmoreLA Despair by John GilmoreLaid Bare by John GilmoreLive Fast - Die Young by John Gilmore

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