Praise for Samuel Garza Bernstein : "A spirited portrait of a Hollywood legend." Publisher's Weekly on Starring Joan Crawford "A bold and complex amalgam of biography, critical analysis, Hollywood gossip, and fantasy. Garza Bernstein successfully balances the apocryphal with scholarly truth, camp with sober insight. It's a satisfying, hearty stew spiced with wit and a genuine love and respect for its eternally fascinating subject." --Charles Busch , American actor, playwright, screenwriter on Starring Joan Crawford "Gorgeously written and meticulously researched, Starring Joan Crawford is a delicious melange of biographical details, cultural criticism, and fanboy fantasia that brings the most vivacious actress of the twentieth century screamingly to life. Freed by the author's sharp eye from the wire-hanger-wielding monstrosity she has become in the collective mind of popular American culture, Miss Crawford becomes flesh and blood once more. In Samuel Garza Bernstein's unputdownable book, her meaning and import are illuminated in the most up-to-date Britney-Xtina-Gaga terms. The superstar is young again, and so is Hollywood, and maybe even the reader, too.

" --Frank DeCaro , author of Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business on Starring Joan Crawford "Samuel Garza Bernstein writes about a woman we all wish we knew because she sounds like a fking hoot! And he does a great job of telling you why we should all wish she was in our circle of friends if we got to dip back in time." Karen McCullah , screenwriter, Legally Blonde and author, The Bachelorette Party on Starring Joan Crawford "Samuel Garza Bernstein brilliantly titles his new book Starring Joan Crawford, but in keeping with the religious thrust, it could just as aptly be called Joan: The Bible. Because it IS the Bible on Joan Crawford. Garza Bernstein brings the real Joan to vivid life, in a style that's both dishy and intimate, but also as erudite and thoroughly researched as a PhD thesis. The men, the movies, the moxie, it's all here." Kim Powers , author of Rules for Being Dead and The History of Swimming on Starring Joan Crawford "In his follow up to the wonderful "Mr. Confidential" Samuel Bernstein brilliantly brings actress Louise Brooks to life in this evocative non-fiction novel that blends both fact and fiction in a way that will keep readers turning pages and begging for more." Julie Kenner , bestselling author of Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom and The Prada Paradox on Lulu.