 In an interview with "The" "Literary Review", Polito said that "Hollywood & God" Tracks a continuum between what might be regarded as transcendence and what we call celebrity culture ...I was interested in telling other people's stories in what looks like my voice and my stories in what looks like other people's voices.I think the shifts of identity in "Hollywood & God"—the moments where suddenly the narrative voice of a poem gives way to another character—are one of the root elements of the book.