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Johnny Weir, star of ice, television and now the page

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Johnny Weir, the Olympian, three-time U.S. skating champion and star of the reality TV series ‘Be Good Johnny Weir,’ will turn his talents to the page. Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, announced today that it will publish Weir’s as-yet-untitled book, which it calls ‘a collection of wildly entertaining anecdotes and essays about everything from pop culture to skating to fashion to Johnny himself.’

It’s no secret that Weir had been shopping the book to publishers; GalleyCat notes that he said so on Twitter. ‘Book meetings!’ Weir wrote on April 6. ‘Get ready and brace yourselves.’

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-- Carolyn Kellogg

. Credit: John Lok / Seattle Times / MCT

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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