In an excerpt from his buzzy new book, Jeff Weiss recalls a mid-2000s golden age when the tabloids tracked the starlets’ ...

The 'Culture Creep,' 'Girl on Girl,' and 'Waiting for Britney Spears' writers discuss their new books and why we can't let Y2K go.

In “Waiting for Britney Spears,” Jeff Weiss looks back at the forces surrounding the pop star’s rise and fall.

His way in was that Britney Spears ’s video for her 1998 smash “Baby One More Time” had been filmed at his high school, an event Weiss describes as “a cluster bomb filled with candy.” What makes ...

In 'Waiting for Britney Spears,' Jeff Weiss writes about becoming an unrepentant co-conspirator in the plot to knock down ...

No matter what genre you prefer, summer always offers a veritable literary bounty. This year, Benedict Nguyễn’s “deeply ...

A family epic from a National Book Award winner, a gonzo account of Britney Spears’s unraveling, and an inner monologue of an ...

Though the protagonist is taken aback, real-life Jeff gets where Saget was coming ... “I tried to make it a sympathetic portrayal of Britney,” says Weiss, who was in the courtroom when she ...

Journalist Jeff Weiss’ new book is as much about the pop princess as it is his own complicity in early-2000s celebrity culture: “I look back with contempt and disgust and wonder” Weiss says ...

Jeff Weiss’s Waiting For Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly is a pop-star biography the way Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a journalistic account of a trip to an auto race and a district ...

It was something far more powerful: 18-year-old Britney Spears. “Do [that] many people usually come out here every day?” Spears asks the host, who answers, “No, not so many people.… ...

Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity ...