Carrie Fisher’s ex-assistant dishes on four years with Leia in new book
A Star is Bored” by Byron Lane (Henry Holt & Co.), out Tuesday, is about an assistant and his famous boss, this book is more of a sweet goodbye and an ode to friendship than a skewering — yet it delights nonetheless.The book is a roman a clef based, in part, on Lane’s experience as a personal assistant to Carrie Fisher, who died in December 2016 at age 60. He worked for her from 2011 to 2014.“It was my first assistant job and the best one ever,” he tells The Post.In “A Star is Bored,” Charlie Besson is a young man desperate for a new gig and a new direction in life.