A review by lsouth
Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers

4.0

Stay Up with Hugo Best tells the story of a weekend shared between a 65-year-old late night show host and a 29-year-old writers' assistant. The novel is much less predictable than this premise might indicate - Somers takes a thoughtful and truthful approach in analyzing how the lives of the mega-successful and ultra-rich coincide and occasionally collide with the lives of the aggressively normal. Stay Up might be a light read, but it is by no means a frivolous one. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the power structures of the entertainment industry and the common threads of sadness found in all walks of life.