{"product_id":"the-midnight-show-isbn-9798217086672","title":"The Midnight Show","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn immersive, page-turning novel about surviving as a funny woman in the male-dominated world of comedy—and what happens when the most promising female star of her generation disappears.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“An utterly addictive read.”—Amy Tintera, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eListen for the Lie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1980s, women were not supposed to be funny. But when a group of college improv comedians gets the chance to join a new late-night show, it’s Lillian Martin who stands out. The new show was called \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show\u003c\/i\u003e and it would air every Friday night, live from New York, and change the landscape of TV and comedy forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut first it would change Lillian’s and her friends’ lives. When the show becomes a runaway hit, the cast is thrown into the spotlight. Suddenly, they’re skipping the line at the city’s hottest clubs and posing on the cover of \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e. Lillian, in particular, seems destined for bigger things—until one winter night in Lower Manhattan, she vanishes, leaving nothing behind but questions. Was Lillian a victim of her own excesses? Was it a mugging gone wrong? Or could she have been killed by someone in her own inner circle?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty years later, Lillian’s disappearance has still never been solved. But when a budding journalist looking to examine Lillian’s story from a modern lens begins asking questions, she stirs up decades-old drama—as well as tightly-held secrets some comedy legends would much rather stay buried.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA propulsive story of fame and friendship told through a variety of media—compiled interviews, articles, transcripts—\u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers behind the scenes of the cutthroat world of comedy in 1980s New York and asks if the rush of getting a laugh is all it’s cracked up to be.“\u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show\u003c\/i\u003e is an utterly addictive read—I couldn’t stop thinking about it once I started. Kelly and Thorne expertly capture the cutthroat world of late-night comedy in juicy, hilarious detail, with special attention to the women at the center of it all. I loved it!”\u003cb\u003e—Amy Tintera, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eListen for the Lie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dark, dazzling, and impossible to put down, \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show\u003c\/i\u003e captures the high-wire world of live TV and the secrets festering just offstage. With inventive storytelling and characters that feel achingly real, it plunges us into 1980s New York with all its glitter, gossip, grime, and glory and a mystery that refuses to stay buried—an absolute knockout.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eChandler Baker, screenwriter and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Whisper Network \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Husbands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Book clubs, behold your next great read. \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show \u003c\/i\u003eis all the things: a brilliantly researched deep dive into the world of New York City comedy in the 1980s, a meticulously plotted mystery, and a big-hearted ode to complicated friendships in all their messy glory. Readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid will fall hard for this groundbreakingly original, utterly immersive story, with its cast of characters who feel impossibly real. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll immediately want to talk about it with everyone you know. At times comedic, at times tragic, but always unflinchingly human. A spellbinding, wildly imaginative book.”\u003cb\u003e—Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTill Death Do Us Part\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Girls Are All So Nice Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant, electric ride. Reading \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show\u003c\/i\u003e feels like being backstage at the birth of \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/i\u003e—complete with swagger, secrets, and the thrill of live TV. Nostalgic, razor sharp, and full of twists I never saw coming. Kelly and Thorne are at the top of their game with this one.”\u003cb\u003e—Sara Ackerman, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guest in Room 120\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show\u003c\/i\u003e is my kind of escapism: meticulously crafted, hilarious yet grounded, and filled with characters who are my actual friends now—I don’t care if they’re fictional. Late-night comedy fans will find this extremely delicious, but so will feminists and nostalgists and people who enjoy being wildly entertained.”\u003cb\u003e—Holly Brickley, author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Cuts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Juicy and addictive, \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show\u003c\/i\u003e is an ingeniously crafted story about the chaotic world of late-night television comedy in the early ’80s, replete with internecine backstage politics, drug use, open misogyny, a terrifying new disease, and a shocking secret at its core. Both laugh-out-loud funny and piercingly poignant, this book had me in its grip from start to end.”\u003cb\u003e—Cynthia Weiner, author of \u003ci\u003eA Gorgeous Excitement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Told through interviews, emails, articles . . . the story offers both an engrossing mystery and a convincing depiction of the challenges faced by women in show business in the 1980s. Fans of \u003ci\u003eDaisy Jones and the Six\u003c\/i\u003e should take a look.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eJennifer Thorne\u003c\/b\u003e are the co-authors of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Antiquity Affair, The Starlets, My Fair Frauds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Show\u003c\/i\u003e. Independently, Kelly is the author of the acclaimed speculative fiction novels \u003ci\u003eCity of Savages, A Criminal Magic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWith Regrets\u003c\/i\u003e. 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