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"If You Ask Me: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved" is Libby Gelman-Waxner's highest-rated book on LuvemBooks, with a reader rating of 4.6/5.

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Libby Gelman-Waxner

Libby Gelman-Waxner is the pen name of screenwriter and playwright Paul Rudnick. Beginning in 1988, Rudnick wrote satirical film criticism for Premiere magazine from the perspective of Gelman-Waxner, a fictional married Manhattan woman. A collection of these columns was published in 1994 as If You Ask Me. The pseudonym was revealed when Premiere folded in 2007.

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If You Ask Me: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved

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If You Ask Me: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved is a humor collection by the pen name Libby Gelman-Waxner — the creation of playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick — gathering five years of film criticism columns originally published in Premiere magazine between 1987 and 1992. The book skewers Hollywood through the voice of a delightfully suburban, pop-culture-obsessed persona, and readers who enjoy satirical cultural commentary delivered with a sharp comedic edge will find it holds up as one of the genre's most purely entertaining entries.

Reviewed Apr 28, 2026

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