"He is a visionary posing as a farceur."--Salman Rushdie "[Wagner's The Empty Chair ] would make a fine fictional companion to the Trappist monk Thomas Merton's writings on spiritual outrage and the impossibility of solace."--Dani Shapiro, The New York Time Book Review " Bruce Wagner writes really wonderfully about that whole milieu [of Hollywood] and its gothic vanity."--Emma Cline "To say that [ Maps to the Stars ] deglamorizes the movie business is like saying that Upton Sinclair deglamorized the meat-packing industry. the medium of film allows Wagner to make his audience visualize (instead of merely imagine) the hallucinations that plague his characters."--Francine Prose "Wagner is the James Joyce whose Dublin is Hollywood."--David Cronenberg "[ Dead Stars is] A Rabelaisian masterpiece."--Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal " Bruce Wagner's stories about Hollywood are the best I've read since F.

Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West."--Terry Southern "Wagner writes like a wizard. His prose writhes and coruscates."--John Updike.