This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Things get weirder and more unpleasant when an actor Michael-David calls “Supreme A–hole” ends up playing his father, and guns are suddenly introduced into the film narrative, freaking our poor protagonist, who can’t handle armaments of any sort - even the fake kind. But Chris refuses to show him a script and Michael-David must take things on faith. When his friend Chris convinces him to be part of a new film he’s writing and directing, Michael-David agrees, hoping that the film will somehow save him. Michael-David feels that fame has ruined him - he’s a recognizable enough actor that he gets asked for his autograph regularly. Welcome to the crazy Hollywood world of middle-aged, paranoid actor Michael-David, star of Daniel Allen Cox’s Basement of Wolves, a beautifully and hilariously strange novel, where regular human fears are writ large within the cult of celebrity and moviemaking, where the actor’s co-stars, the titular wolves, are “clean, more sanitary than most people.”
