*Roar,* Bruce Wagner’s 13th novel, stitches together the recollections of Meryl Streep, Allen Ginsberg, and Andy Warhol, among dozens of others, to tell the story of Roger Orr. And Wagner wrote every word.

Life Imitates Bruce Wagner

The true oral history of a fake oral history—and an audiobook that would make Pirandello proud

By Sam Kashner

I saw the best minds of my generation, like Roger Orr, destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
—Allen Ginsberg, Howl

I was finally in someone else’s book.