Lindsay Lynch is a writer from Washington, DC.
She is the author of the novel
Do Tell.
She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Wyoming.
A longtime indie bookseller, Lynch currently lives in Nashville, TN, where she works as a book buyer for Parnassus Books.
At Electric Lit she tagged eight favorite books "that show us the mess off-camera, behind the curtain, and backstage." One title on the list:
Hollywood: Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
I couldn’t do this list without a Golden Age Hollywood novel and Anthony Marra’s Mercury Pictures Presents is one of the greatest. The eponymous studio at 
the heart of Marra’s novel isn’t like the MGMs and Paramounts of the era—Mercury Pictures specializes in B-list films and is primarily run by a crew of immigrants and refugees from war-torn Europe. Among them is Maria Lagana, an Italian transplant whose father is still being held under arrest by the Fascist regime in their home country. Maria finds herself at the helm of Mercury Pictures as an associate producer, dealing with ego-driven men in power, attacks from the Production Code Administration, racist typecasting, and threat of bankruptcy. What I love about this novel is how deftly Marra moves between high and low brow art, revealing the underlying currents that shape B-list productions and the machine of propaganda in America. It’s always a pleasure to read Marra, and a delight to see him working in this era.
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the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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