Bruce Wagner has written twelve novels and bestsellers, including the famous "Cellphone Trilogy," (I’ m Losing You, I’ ll Let You Go and Still Holding), Dead Stars, The Empty Chair, and the PEN/Faulkner-nominated Chrysanthemum Palace. He wrote the screenplay for David Cronenberg’ s film Maps to the Stars, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In 1993, Wagner wrote and created the visionary mini-series Wild Palms for producer Oliver Stone and co-wrote (with Ullman) three seasons the acclaimed Tracey Ullman’ sState of the Union. He has written essays and articles for the New York Times, Artforum and the New Yorker.