Of Streets and Stars
Alan Marcus
July 5, 2022
ISBN 9798218005634 / Paperback / 320 pages / $19.99

First published in 1960, Of Streets and Stars is Alan Marcus's second novel—a lyrical, clear-eyed portrait of life inside the artificial world of Hollywood filmmaking. Long out of print, this new edition restores a work that captures the distance between glamour and labor with uncommon sensitivity.

"A novel of dazzling originality, written with compassion, sometimes with wild humor, always in the beauty of simplicity."
— Dorothy Parker

"I have as high an opinion of this talent as anything I have encountered in a long while."
— Saul Bellow

"The writing is at once easy and precise—that magical conjunction almost no one hits . . . brilliant insights, brilliantly caught. I read it with more than pleasure."
— Archibald MacLeish

"The literary sensation of the year. . . . His style is spare, lean, staccato. Jagged cutting in and out of scenes, in the manner of a skillful director, gives the book a breathless momentum. It needs to be read carefully, but the effort will be handsomely repaid."
— The New York Times

"A truly original and sensitive novel . . . the work of a very powerful talent."
— Harvey Swados