I just received a copy of Jen Trynin's Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be and even though I'm already immersed in a couple of other books, it already grabbed me from the first few pages and I'm setting everything else aside for the duration. It's an alternately smart, wickedly funny, and nightmarish personal history of what it is like to be ground up and spit out by the star-making machine.

There are a million stories like this out there, but Trynin has a real knack for a compelling  narrative without an ounce of self pity.