Adam Novak: 3 books

In the spirit of Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty and the HBO series Entourage, Adam Novak's crime novel, The Non-Pro, skewers the Hollywood scene like a picador to a bull. When movie industry insider Jerry Makos dies under mysterious circumstances, his brother Josh seeks the killer while trying not to...

In the tradition of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and P.T. Anderson's Magnolia, Adam Novak explores the city of angels and demons in his third novel Freaks of the Industry. Studio executive Rodney Muir quits the business after a prostitution scandal and returns home to Washington,...

Take Fountain is a "found pages" meta-novel that, through transcripts of an interview between a screenwriter and a script-reading superstar, unravels a murder mystery with profound implications. A novel along the lines of Padgett Powell's You & Me, Take Fountain uses the format of interview transcript...