4% Famous
A Novel
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Which loose-lipped gal about town has been caught canoodling with a randy restaurateur? Sources say the new “legs” of the Examiner’s gossip column has been helping him bury his long-simmering scandal even though it’s been eating away at her conscience.
Which grizzly tabloid guy better watch his way with the ladies? We hear he got more than a hangover from a boozy night out with a mattress (model/actress) that may cost him his burgeoning relationship with a precocious Park Avenue princess.
Which Wall Street mogul is about to be busted for fuzzy math on his taxes? Luckily, his ink-stained son is digging up a diversion to take down a blowhard billionaire instead.
In the novel 4% Famous, Kate Simon, Tim Mack, and Blake Bradley negotiate the ruthless underworld of Manhattan while working for the city’s top gossip columns.
Friends, lovers, and frenemies may come and go as quickly as the fame quotient of the celebrities they cover, but the young columnists must figure out for themselves what—and who—is worth protecting as they try to avoid becoming fodder for Manhattan’s boldfaced games.
Sexy, exciting, and addictively readable, 4% Famous is an intimate fictional tale of a bizarre industry full of characters and secrets that are as seductive and dark as New York City itself.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Schoeneman (of New York magazine) writes a fast-paced, seductive first novel that follows three gossip columnists immersed in the chaos of Manhattan celebrity life. When 22-year-old Kate Simon takes a job at the New York Examiner, her college roommate, "Zoe Miller of Fifth Avenue," becomes a welcome resource, as do fellow columnists Tim Mack and Blake Bradley. As Kate adjusts to a world where she and her colleagues "get paid to be the last ones standing" at celebrity shindigs and good press is exchanged for free goods, she reveals herself as neither an ingenue nor a socialite, but an endearing outsider looking "to succeed at gossip enough that she'll be able to get out of it." Her public snafus provide laughs without turning her into a clown, and her colleagues avoid easy caricature as well, as Tim has to face the "mattress" (that's a model/actress) he's impregnated and Blake deals with his disapproving father, whom he must help out of a tax scandal. It's to Shoeneman's credit that there are few happy endings, giving the proceedings a tone several shades darker than similar media-girl-in-the-city stories. This is an unforgiving portrait of fame from the underlings' point of view with Schoeneman the Bret Easton Ellis of chick lit.
