Works by
Ian Spiegelman
(Writer)

Fiction

• Welcome to Yesterday (2006)
  Not since Dashiell Hammett has dialogue crackled like this. From former New York Post Page Six columnist Ian Spiegelman comes a modern noir thriller set in the world of New York gossip. Welcome to Yesterday is a readers delight, striking the perfect balance of intelligent prose and society's obsession with celebrity throw in a murder, and the effect is electric. Leon Koch is not having a good day. And his nights about to get worse. When a drug-addicted talent agent whom Koch, a young reporter at New York's most powerful gossip column, had just disgraced is found dead, Koch wakes up at the center of the scandal. Suddenly, the spotlights on him. He must discover the real story behind the death, while maneuvering through the world of Manhattan gossip encountering a steady stream of starlets, superstars, and publicists all the while avoiding the police and his new editor-in-chief. Through his laconic, hard working and harder-drinking antihero, Spiegelman offers readers an insiders glimpse into the world of celebrity journalism with the authority and skill of a born stylist.

• Everyone's Burning: A Novel (2003)
  A young man without prospects finds his place in the universe--as a young woman's slave.
  
  Poised somewhere between high school and adulthood, Leon Koch roams the bars and bedrooms of Bayside, Queens, twenty minutes and a thousand psychic miles from Manhattan--a multicultural landscape where the line dividing the middle class from the street gangs has been obliterated. With his two best friends just out of prison for pipe-bombing a house, Koch discovers that cocaine and alcohol have imbued him with "superpowers," twisting his mind into a plexus where love, fear, violence, and intimacy are indistinguishable. As life becomes a waking nightmare spent fighting with police, predators, and the law-abiding, unscarred citizens he dismisses as "normals," Koch drives relentlessly toward a fantasy zone. What he finds is a fetishistic realm of worship and ritual where people are never quite certain whether they're role-playing or getting played by their roles. Testing the bounds of sensation under the constant threat of violence, Koch explores a world that is a slave to its own secrets, where freedom exists only in a 911 call from the brink of self-annihilation.
  
  Told in a hallucinatory, street-poetic voice, Everyone's Burning depicts the lives and deaths of a generation that raised itself on Star Wars, talk shows, and Charles Manson interviews. Koch is a bleary yet gimlet-eyed tour guide through one of their neighborhoods.

Non-fiction

• How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative (2008) by Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman
  Fresh out of grad school, Allen Raymond joined the GOP for one reason: rumor had it that there was big money to be made on the Republican side of the aisle.
  
  From the earliest days of the Republican Revolution through its culmination in the second Bush White House, Raymond played a key role in helping GOP candidates twist the truth beyond recognition during a decade of crucial and bitterly fought campaigns. His career took him from the nastiest of local elections in New Jersey backwaters through runs for Congress and the Senate and right up to a top management position in a bid for the presidency itself.
  
  It also took him to prison.
  
  Full of wit and candor, Raymond's account offers an astonishingly frank look at the black art of campaigning and the vagaries of the Republican establishment. Unlike many "architects" of the political scene, the author takes full responsibility for his actions -- even as he never misses a trick.
  
  A completely original tale of the disillusioning of a man who enters politics with no illusions, How to Rig an Election is a brilliant and hilarious exposé of how the contemporary political game is really played.

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