The novel Valley of the Dolls turns fifty this year — and it still looks fabulous. Maybe it's the nips and tucks, or the booze and pills — you know, the dolls — or the backstabbing. Or the bonking. If ...

Margarita Montimore was reading celebrity books and dark academia novels when an idea came to her. “I was reading a lot of memoirs of former child stars, from really tame ones of ‘This was my life, ...

The 1966 book “Valley of the Dolls” is perhaps less famous than its 1967 movie adaptation, but in both incarnations, the story is renowned for being pulpy and sensationalist. Jacqueline Susann’s story ...