Better Davis and Other Stories : Squares & Rebels : 9781941960158 : 1941960154 : 15 Sep 2021 : "Scathingly funny, downright nasty, unnervingly haunting, and ultimately heartbreaking, the stories in Better Davis and Other Stories take a very specific moment in American culture-the late seventies and early-mid eighties-and imagine the inner worlds of true-life celebrities, artists, gay playboys, and their good-time gal pals as AIDS shadowed and then decimated a vibrant and decadent generation. Keenly aware of his characters' failings and frailties as well as their vulnerability and humanity, Philip Dean Walker writes as if Andrew Holleran had ever turned his shrewd lens on the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and Paul Lynde, revealing the messy and tender hearts of large and small American icons who are already half-forgotten." -Tim Murphy, author of Christodora and Correspondents "Philip Dean Walker's Better Davis and Other Stories brings life to extraordinary celebrity corne