Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. Lauren Sanders follows up her award-winning debut novel, KAMIKAZE LUST, with this "hot poetic book I wouldn't kick out of bed"--Eileen Myles. WITH OR WITHOUT YOU combines the aching adolescent heart of The Catcher in the Rye with the dark suburban soul of The Great Gatsby-set against the the starstruck voyeurism of American Idol. This book asks the quintessentially American question: Is life worth living if you can't be famous?