Wallflower at the Orgy

New York: Viking Press, 1970. Cloth, xii, 179 pages; 21 cm. Topstained purple. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar cover. Author's first book. A collection of interviews of American pop culture icons of the 1960s and 1970s offers revealing profiles of such notables as Helen Gurley Brown, Jacqueline Susann, Julia Child, Ayn Rand, Craig Claiborne, Bill Blass, and Mike Nichols. CONTENTS: The food establishment: life in the land of the rising souffle (or is it the rising meringue?); 'If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you.'; The Fountainhead revisited; Makeover: the short, unglamorous saga of a new glamorous me; Women's Wear Daily unclothed; Mush; The man in the Bill Blass suit; A rhinestone in a trash can and the Love Machine phenomenon of J. Susann; Eating and sleeping with Arthur Frommer; Publishing prophets for profit; The diary of a beach wife; An interview with Mike Nichols; On location with Catch-22.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.