Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness

Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists; now, in Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead, his candid, surprising, and often hysterical interviews reveal the hidden sides of 120 of the world’s biggest celebrities, from Hugh Heffner to Johnny Cash to Snoop Dogg and beyond.
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You can tell a lot about somebody in a minute. If you choose the right minute. Here are 228 of them.

Join Neil Strauss, "The Mike Tyson of interviewers," (Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum), as he

• Makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep Mötley Crüe out of jail & gets kidnapped by Courtney Love
• Shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young & goes to church with Tom Cruise and his mother
• Spends the night with Trent Reznor, reads the mind of Britney Spears & finds religion with Stephen Colbert
• Gets picked on by Led Zeppelin, threatened by the mafia & serenaded by Leonard Cohen
• Picks up psychic clues with the CIA, diapers with Snoop Dog & prison survival tips from Rick James
• Goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani & hot tubbing with Marilyn Manson
• Talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash & sex with Chuck Berry
• Gets molested by the Strokes, in trouble with Prince & in bed with… you’ll find out who inside

And many, many more awkward moments and accidental adventures with the world’s number one stars in Everyone Love You When You’re Dead.

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“Gonzo interviewing at its best.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“We could do fifteen minutes in Vegas.” - Chuck Berry

“One of the longest and greatest interviews I’ve ever had.” - Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys

“The best interview of my life.” - Britney Spears

“Well Neil, f*ck you.” - Phil Collins, Angry Letter to Neil Strauss

“This excellent bathroom read is boiled down like little rocks of crack.” - Library Journal

“The best and most honest daily newspaper reporter rock has ever seen.” - Dave Marsh, Author

“We might as well have had sex now.” - Lady Gaga

“If you were a girl, I’d f*ck you.” - Bo Diddley

“A terrific look at the dysfunctional livelihoods of stardom.” - Publishers Weekly

“God bless the demons—and Neil Strauss too.” - Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe