With exactly 2 weeks until Summer, the perfect pick for poolside scandal and seaside suspense #INPURSUITOFBEAUTY by Gary Baum (Pub:7/1) was named one of @nyposts's 30 Best Beach reads for Summer '25! 🏖️ 📲Roundup: nypost.com/2025/05/24/ent… 📕Shop: blackstonepublishing.com/products/book-…

For @thr I wrote about how IN PURSUIT OF BEAUTY, my noirish debut novel about a plastic surgeon's fraught relationship with the ghostwriter of her memoir, materialized out of reporting I've done over the past decade. Plus, an excerpt from the book! hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts…

A razor-sharp #psychologicalthriller about obsession & chasing perfection, the New York Post & The Hollywood Reporter top pick for Summer '25 #INPURSUITOFBEAUTY by Gary Baum is out 7/1! AMZ amazon.com/Pursuit-Beauty… B&N barnesandnoble.com/w/in-pursuit-o… APPLE books.apple.com/us/audiobook/i… BSP blackstonepublishing.com/products/book-…

It's 10 days to the release of my debut novel — an exploration of aspiration, invention, illusion & delusion. Here's an excerpt, along w/ a short essay on how my years as an investigative reporter shaped IN PURSUIT OF BEAUTY. Blackstone Publishing Don Winslow hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts…

Just dropped… New conversation… Hollywood Knew: Diddy, Cosby, Weinstein…Award-Winning Journalist Gary Baum from @hollywoodreporter We talk Gary’s celebrated new novel about wealth and obsession. Plus, an eerie coincidence. youtu.be/Th6shsiOGug

Congratulations to Gary Baum on his amazing debut thriller #InPursuitOfBeauty which is on sale NEXT WEEK. dailynews.com/2025/06/26/cha…

Thank you Emily St. Martin for such a thoughtful, generous consideration of this novel!

.Winston Cho and I examine how entertainment mogul Tyler Perry has long appeared to operate his namesake studio without standard workplace guardrails. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

“I was interested in...a figure who presents a strong energy & has a view of the world that’s unstoppable.”— Gary Baum, on how his 15-year tenure at The Hollywood Reporter inspired the New York Post + Hollywood Insider pick, #INPURSUITOFBEAUTY (Pub: 7/1)! -dailynews.com/2025/06/26/cha… -blackstonepublishing.com/products/book-…?

"Fiction’s capaciousness allows for inquiries beyond the bounds of investigative reporting...This was ratified for me when writing... #INPURSUITOFBEAUTY"—Gary Baum, on his transition from reporter to debut novelist for People. -people.com/gary-baum-essa… -blackstonepublishing.com/products/book-…?

Congratulations to Gary Baum on the publication day of your fantastic debut novel IN PURSUIT OF BEAUTY. This is a fantastic book folks. Pick it up. hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts…

Gary Baum has long been one of the best enterprise reporters alive and his debut novel captures the vanity, self-deception, and plastic delusions of L.A. life as well as anything I've read in years. Highly recommend "In Pursuit of Beauty."

My The Hollywood Reporter colleague Lexy Perez interviewed me about my novel IN PURSUIT OF BEAUTY, which published today. We talked about the influence of Janet Malcolm, the importance of Britney Spears, the book's Hannibal Lecter-Clarice Starling dynamic, and much more. hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts…

Thank you! This is just surreal…

My new book, NEPTUNE’S FORTUNE, about the search for the Holy Grail of Shipwrecks, comes out in January. 100% Human-written! And 25% off if you pre-order on Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble by 7/11.

Paramount Global believed it had a framework for a $3 billion new 10-year agreement w/ South Park creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone. Skydance, the studio’s likely new owner, balked at the terms. Reporting w/ Winston Cho and Alex Weprin. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

For The Hollywood Reporter's philanthropy issue, I spoke to NGO leaders about how the Trump admin's effective elimination of USAID has left Hollywood-favored humanitarian causes scrambling for funds. hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n…

I wrote about an Oscar inheritance battle between the daughter and stepdaughter of "In the Heat of the Night" star Rod Steiger... hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

Not since Titanic have I found a powerful, heartbreaking and inspiring real life story as found in Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino. This is an amazing book and a film I am excited to direct. Order below: AMAZON: amzn.to/3QuiZT8 B&N: bit.ly/3D7IFSw

I visited Elon Musk's new Tesla Diner for The Hollywood Reporter . Conceived in 2018, the project is both a throwback to midcentury car hops as well as our more recent era, when Hollywood liberals embraced the EV entrepreneur before his hard-right turn. hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/life…