'Like a J.D. Salinger novel rolled in Hunter S. Thompson's hallucinogen dust.' --Ann Powers, author of Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell ' Waiting for Britney Spears] transformed and transported me.' ―Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year A frenetic, gonzo account of Britney Spears's historic rise and equally tragic fall told by an iconoclastic music journalist. America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles is a young writer who for all practical purposes let's call Jeff Weiss, who took whatever job he could to pursue his dream of being a 'serious' writer. He'd instead become a firsthand witness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by 'the coy it-girl at the end of history.' Years later, after finally making it as a
