Cintra Wilson discovered that celebrities, like pop stars, often inspire profound longing in complete strangers. Wilson is a playwright and performer and the author of A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations.
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