A love letter to pop music,\u00a0American Spirits\u00a0charts an icon\u2019s fall\u2014and an obsessive fangirl\u2019s rise.<\/p>\n
Thirty-eight-year-old Blue Velour has finally achieved the critical acclaim she\u2019s long been chasing. Over the last decade, she\u2019s released six studio albums to mixed reviews, landing her somewhere between performance artist and niche legend. But her latest album,\u00a0Blue\u2019s Beard\u2014a cheeky reference to the subreddit fanatically dedicated to her suspected secret relationship with longtime producer Sasha Harlow\u2014has rocket-launched her reputation. Blue hires nerdy superfan Rose Lutz as her assistant to handle the pressures of the upcoming tour.<\/p>\n
When the pandemic shuts down the tour, however, Blue decides to hole up in the redwoods with Sasha to make another album. An aspiring singer herself, Rose is frothing at the mouth to be isolated in a cabin with these two legends, but what begins as a creative retreat spirals into a flurry of chaos and betrayal\u2014culminating in a tragic act that changes their lives forever.<\/p>\n
Smart, entertaining, and edgy,\u00a0American Spirits\u00a0is a compelling exploration of the dark side of fame.<\/p>\n
Anna Dorn\u00a0is the author of the novels\u00a0Perfume and Pain,\u00a0Exalted,\u00a0Vagablonde, and\u00a0American Spirits. She was a Lambda Literary Fellow and\u00a0Exalted\u00a0was a finalist for the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0Book Prize. She lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Death Valley, Milk Fed, and The Pisces, and the forthcoming Empty and Marvelous from Scribner, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, including Superdoom. Her books are translated in over twelve languages.<\/p>\n
Catie Disabato\u2018s romance debut,\u00a0Rooting Interest,\u00a0was released by 831 Stories in January 2026. Her second novel,\u00a0U Up?\u00a0was named one of the best mystery novels of 2021 by\u00a0The New York Times.\u00a0Her first novel,\u00a0The Ghost Network, was published in 2015 and was called a “smart and thorny debut,” by The New York Times Book Review.\u00a0Disabato has written essays and criticism for outlets including the LAist, Buzzfeed, and LA Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nada Alic is the author of\u00a0Bad Thoughts, a New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick and finalist for the Danuta Gleed award. Her novel is forthcoming from Knopf.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aiden Arata is the bestselling author of\u00a0You Have a New Memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A love letter to pop music,\u00a0American Spirits\u00a0charts an icon\u2019s fall\u2014and an obsessive fangirl\u2019s rise. Thirty-eight-year-old Blue Velour has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64531,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-263825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bookstore-events","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}