A Star Is Bored

A Novel

By: Byron Lane

Narrated by: Noah Galvin

This program is read by Noah Galvin, who starred in The Good Doctor, Dear Evan Hansen, The Real O'Neals, and Booksmart.

"A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender."
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six

People Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 - Named a Must-Read Summer book by Town & Country - Named One of the 14 Best Books of Summer 2020 by Harper's Bazaar - One of Library Journal's 2020 "Titles to Watch" - One of the 30 Best Beach Reads According to Parade Magazine

The Devil Wears Prada meets Postcards From the Edge in a hilariously heartfelt novel influenced in part by the author’s time assisting Carrie Fisher.

Charlie Besson is tense and sweating as he prepares for an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine’s worst dressed list. She needs an assistant. He needs a hero.

Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and an award winning actress, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in a blockbuster sci-fi film. She’s also known in another role: crazy. Admittedly so. Famously so. Fabulously so, as Charlie quickly discovers.

Their three year odyssey is filled with late night shopping sprees, last minute trips to see the aurora borealis, and an initiation to that most sacred of Hollywood tribes: the personal assistant. But Kathi becomes much more than a boss, and as their friendship grows, Charlie must make a choice. Will he always be on the sidelines of life, assisting the great forces that be, or can he step into his own leading role?

Laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly poignant, Byron Lane's A Star is Bored is a novel that, like the star at its center, is enchanting and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

A magical world

Byron Lane has created a silly, odd, glorious and beautiful piece of art we are all lucky enough to get to share in. I laughed out loud. I sobbed. I reflected. And I feel like I got to share in something very special, even if it is a fiction. Such a gift.

Hilarious, Poignant and Pitch Perfect!

This book does not disappoint. It is both what I expected and so much more. The amazing insider perspective on the strange, hilarious and often heartbreaking aspects of living in LA. The delightful surprise was how personal and raw the book was. It’s not clear how much is real or fictionalized but it doesn’t matter. Byron writes with such honesty about his fears, insecurities, joys and revelations that it all rings true as beautifully read Noah Gavin. Bravo!

Hard to listen to knowing how it ended in real life

Great book, I loved her writing, first book of hers I read was “Delusions of Grandma” about 30 years ago and I was hooked. I then saw her as a writer instead of an actress. One of my pet peeves is she did abridged audiobooks. Thank for the insight. Tone of book felt a cross between Carrie and David Sedaris. I loved it, thank you

I was unsure

….about this book before I purchased it. Turns out to be one of the best credits I’ve spent! Sweet and funny and bawdy in all the right places. I was never bored ⭐️

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