Like any healthy, red-blooded American, young Liza Normal wants to be famous. Like "people will see me and cry" famous. She lacks only talent. . . . Colors Insulting to Nature is a scaldingly hilarious coming-of-age novel, savage on the exterior but with a heart as tender as a marshmallow chick. It is a remarkable comic debut. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. “Wilson cranks out the zingers.” - People “Hysterical…[Colors Insulting to Nature] takes us on a wacky trip to the heart of our celebrity-obsessed culture.” - Us Weekly, Hot Book Picks “Riotous and harrowing … an impressive, maybe even great, comic novel.” - The Oregonian (Portland) “Hilarious…You’ll wince at Liza’s outlandish humiliations along the way, but it won’t stop you from laughing out loud.” - Harper's Bazaar, Hot List “Cintra Wilson [is] the thinking woman’s David Foster Wallace...with the most action packed sentences in the biz.” - New York Times Book Review “A send-up of the celebrity obsessed by the woman who wrote the book on fame.” - Gotham “A first novel from the Dorothy Parker of the Cyber Age.” - San Francisco Chronicle “A raucous, hilarious debut novel…[Wilson’s] spirited send-up worship of celebrity worship is laugh-out-loud funny.”- - Publishers Weekly Like any healthy, red-blooded American, young Liza Normal wants to be famous. Like "people will see me and cry" famous. She lacks only talent. . . . Colors Insulting to Nature is a scaldingly hilarious coming-of-age novel, savage on the exterior but with a heart as tender as a marshmallow chick. It is a remarkable comic debut. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. Cintra Wilson is a pop culture pundit whose column for Salon.com and collection of essays, A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease , have garnered her a cult following. An award-winning playwright and screenwriter, she has seen her work produced by Tim Robbins's Actor's Gang theater company in Los Angeles, Naked Angels in New York, and MTV, where her creation Winter Steele was a long-running segment of Liquid Television. She lives in New York City.