Queer People
A Madcap Jazz Age Satire of Hollywood’s Scandalous Eccentrics
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Queer People
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Henning
About this listen
A lost Hollywood classic returns. A must read for fans of Seth Rogen’s The Studio — the original Hollywood takedown that paved the way.
Hollywood has always been messy — but in 1930, it was gloriously unhinged.
Queer People: A Madcap Jazz Age Satire of Hollywood’s Scandalous Eccentrics said the quiet part out loud: the studio system ran on ambition, spin, and scandal, and everyone was in on the game. Carroll & Garrett Graham, who actually lived inside that machine, deliver a cast of actors, fixers, and publicity sharks scrambling through a town where fame is a hustle and morality is optional.
Shrouded in obscurity for fifty years, this restored edition brings the novel roaring back with its full original text plus two smart, lively essays and other historical artifacts that unpack its history and why it still hits a nerve today.
Sharp, funny, and shockingly honest, Queer People shows Hollywood before it learned to hide the bodies — metaphorically, of course.
©2026 Starshells of Madness (P)2026 Starshells of MadnessCritic reviews
“About as funny as anything I’ve ever read.” – Graydon Carter, NY Times 2025
“Satirizes Hollywood in almost libelous terms. Its horrid characters are drawn so plainly from life that they set Hollywood’s hair on end. The hero is a drunken and unscrupulous libertine who, while performing ably as ‘professor’ in a sporting house... The heroines of Queer People are insistently immoral and the scene of their depravities combines the worst features of Sodom and Gomorrah.” - TIME (1931)
“The best work that has appeared in this field. . . composed with such gusto, such fearless regard for the truth, and so penetrating a knowledge of actual Hollywood doings that it immediately becomes a rather important book. At any rate, it is an extremely entertaining one.” - NY Times (1930)