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Topic: RSS FeedNovel gazing.(UNCENSORED)(Maura Moynihan novel Covergirl offers award-worthy dish)(Brief article)
W, July, 2006
Maura Moynihan's upcoming novel, Covergirl (ReganBooks), won't win any Pulitzers, but it will offer some award-worthy dish. Moynihan, the daughter of the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, made her mark as an Andy Warhol Factory girl, rock-star magnet and human rights activist. The roman a clef, dubbed "reality fiction," uses only the thinnest of veils to disguise her various escapades and those of her cohorts.
A Mick Jagger doppelganger is mocked as a "boring" lover; a Jerry Hall stand-in "hated other women and was devoid of scruples"; and a Boris Becker character is portrayed as a whiskey-drinking disco dancer with a proclivity for "writhing against a pillar." "When you fictionalize people, you can really explore their motives and insecurities," Moynihan...
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