Sometimes I’ll just Google “I’m a writer” so there’s evidence of my search history. The things I have to Google worry me sometimes. On the strangest corners of her search history: That was very influential to me in the writing of the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I’m now, again, harping on Elizabeth Taylor, but there’s this really great book called Furious Love, which is specifically about Elizabeth and Richard Burton and the complexity of their relationship. On the icon she can’t stop reading about:Įlizabeth Taylor has a biography that her estate just put out, which is incredible. But there’s nothing wrong with indulging in some harmless gossip, as Reid does when she needs a little break: “When I want to stop writing, I’m like, ‘Well, obviously I should go see if Lainey’s posted anything else today,” she says.īelow, Reid reflects on her search history, notebook collection, and Steve Miller Band phase. In the novel, though fans had spent decades trying to determine why the band had broken up - was there an affair? multiple? - it isn’t until Daisy and the gang speak up that the actual reason comes to light.
I’d start to get really excited and be like, ‘Oh, I have to get to my computer.’”Īs Daisy Jones acknowledges, no matter how expansive your research might be, you’ll likely never find the truth beneath the rumors. “ Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run and watched the Eagles documentary. “I did a lot of reading about the process of recording Rumours,” she says. To write Daisy Jones - the television adaptation of which is now streaming on Amazon, and was produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine - Reid had to pull from material more upmarket than Lainey, but when it comes to celebrity, the line between journalism and gossip is always hard to parse. Such is the basis for Reid’s most recent spate of bestselling novels, which she calls her “famous women quartet”: 2017’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugolooks at a Hollywood star of yore 2019’s Daisy Jones, the story of a Stevie Nicks-esque figure and her erstwhile bandmates 2021’s Malibu Rising follows a model and her family of surfers and 2022’s Carrie Soto Is Back is about the world’s greatest tennis player.
“I’m interested in analyzing star image, in understanding the story we’re being told, and why we’re being told it,” she says. Her interest in gossip runs deeper than salacious information itself. “I can’t start writing until I’ve read everything that put up for the day so far,” the Daisy Jones & The Sixnovelist tells Bustle. Old Hollywood tell-alls like Starring Roles, celebrity deep dives by acclaimed journalists such as Anne Helen Petersen, tabloid blogs - she devours it all.
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