{"product_id":"book-28ku","title":"Queer People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"About as funny as anything I've ever read.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - Graydon Carter, former editor of \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Satirizes Hollywood in almost libelous terms… the worst features of Sodom and Gomorrah.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine, 1931\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lost Hollywood classic returns, now fully performed, with an authentic Jazz Age soundtrack woven throughout.\u003c\/strong\u003e A must-listen for fans of Seth Rogen's \u003cem\u003eThe Studio\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eQueer People\u003c\/em\u003e is the original Hollywood takedown that paved the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: \"Queer\" is used in its 1913 Webster's Dictionary sense, meaning odd, singular, or strange. It celebrates the wonderfully oddball characters of 1920s Hollywood. Not an LGBTQ+ title.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHollywood has always been messy, but in 1930 it was gloriously unhinged. \u003cem\u003eQueer People\u003c\/em\u003e said the quiet part out loud: the studio system ran on ambition, spin, and scandal, and everyone was in on the game. Written by two brothers who lived inside that machine, it hit pre-Code Tinseltown like a brick through a studio window. Nine printings in a single summer, then buried for over fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMulti-award-winning NY Times bestselling narrator \u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Henning\u003c\/strong\u003e brings the whole boozy circus to life: the fixers, the publicity sharks, the fading stars. A period jazz score pulled from original 1920s recordings pulses underneath. This is the rare audiobook that doesn't just tell you about a Jazz Age Hollywood party; it drops you inside one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow Whitey, a broke, gin-soaked newspaperman who blows into Prohibition-era Hollywood and straight into a world of backstabbing, blackmail, casting couches, and murder, all washed down at wild bootleg parties where nobody means a word they say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReal moguls, real stars, real dirt: Irving Thalberg, John Gilbert, Louella Parsons, and many more, barely disguised. Howard Hughes bought the film rights. Even he couldn't get it made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharp, funny, and shockingly honest, \u003cem\u003eQueer People\u003c\/em\u003e shows Hollywood before it learned to hide the bodies. Metaphorically, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e©2026 Starshells of Madness\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67381460795696,"sku":"BD28ku","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-28ku","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}