Bonnie Goldberg's Reviews > End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

Happy Pub Day! When I was 9 or 10 I wrote a piece of creative writing and my teacher told me that “humungous” wasn’t a real word. I knew it was though - I had read the word in countless books! Patty Lin recalls a similar experience but with the word aged. Lin spent decades having her writing for television criticized to the point that she learned to question her evident and objective talent for writing comedy and dramedic TV scripts. Basically the business broke her. To say nothing of the racism and sexism she experienced as the only female and Asian in the writing room. If the constant and unfounded criticism didn’t destroy her, the treatment at the hands of decidedly “unwoke” bosses would have. This is the story of how Lin learns to recognize her professional and personal worth; we are lucky she lived to tell the tale and impart her hard earned wisdom in this compelling memoir. You’ll never watch an episode of Friends the same way again once you see how the proverbial sausage got made. Thank you to NetGalley and Zibby books for this terrific ARC.