I Met Someone

In I Met Someone--what Wagner has called a ＂tenderly mutilated companion piece＂ to his screenplay for Maps to the Stars (the film directed by David Cronenberg for which Julianne Moore won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress)--Oscar-winning Dusty Wilding learns the unspeakable secret hidden beneath the glamour of her carefully calibrated celebrity lifestyle and marriage. With Sirkian grandeur and fearless precision, Wagner scales the heights of his own magnificent obsession: the merciless horrors of destiny--and the shock of courage that often allows human beings to embrace the sacred. I Met Someone has been called ＂among the most poetic and tragic of all [Wagner’s] work. And perhaps the most deliriously redemptive.＂

Bruce Wagner has written thirteen novels and bestsellers, including the famous ＂Cellphone Trilogy,＂ I’m Losing You (PEN USA finalist), I’ll Let You Go and Still Holding, Dead Stars, ROAR: American Master, The Oral Biography of Roger Orr, The Empty Chair, and the PEN/Faulkner-finalist Chrysanthemum Palace. He wrote the screenplay for David Cronenberg’s film Maps to the Stars, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In 1993, Wagner wrote and created the visionary mini-series Wild Palms for producer Oliver Stone and co-wrote (with Ullman) three seasons of the acclaimed Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union. He has written essays and articles for the New York Times, Artforum and the New Yorker. He lives in Los Angeles.