Author: Tom Payne
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A free preview collection of essays from Tom Payne, author of FAME
We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why do we treat the ones we love like burnt offerings in a ritual of human sacrifice? Perhaps because that is exactly what they are.
In this collection of essays, Tom Payne -- author of Popcropolis.com and the "trenchant, unsettling, and darkly hilarious" Fame (New York Times Book Review) -- draws the narratives of the past and the immediate present into one intriguing story.
INCLUDES AN EXCERPT FROM FAME!
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