Dan Frazier

The members of Los Angeles band Fitz and The Tantrums were never just a fresh batch of college dropouts benefiting from blogger buzz.

What began as a short story became a debut novel, and later a feature film by David Fincher starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. The movie bombed, but it didn’t matter. A cult following had begun that would turn Fight Club into an underground cultural phenomenon.

With stunning blue eyes, long brown hair, and sporadic smiles, Miller speaks pleasantly, her open confidence laced with sharp wit. Naturally, she’s an all-in-one auteur.

HBO sent a collective chill down our spine with the grisly drama True Detective, but that level of macabre will be eclipsed when the network debuts The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.

So what do you do when your band goes on hiatus? If you live in New York, you go busk in the subways; if you live in Los Angeles, you go tan on the beach; but if you live in Nashville—like Jared Followill of Kings of Leon and Nick Brown of Mona—you go to a buddy’s house, drink some booze, and record songs in the basement.

Author Chuck Palahniuk may be best known for writing the rules of Fight Club, but 13 novels and 18 years later he’s still pushing the edge of contemporary fiction.

After hosting three awkward seasons of Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule, television’s most bizarre investigative reporter, Steve Brule, recently released an unaired sitcom pilot entitled Bagboy.