A collection of observations, stories and aphorisms about Hollywood from one of America’s foremost writers and, these days, provocateurs. It is virtually unreadable.

A short, chatty, discursive book padded with the author’s comic doodle.

It’s less funny than cantankerous, bilious and sardonically angry.

A free-associative, selectively offensive monologue.

Proceeds to gleefully bite the hand that has generously fed him over the course of his long career.

The book has a constant stream of stories and tangents, but readers will consistently be entertained. As a bonus, Mamet’s own cartoon sketches decorate the text.

Acerbic and entertaining.

Cantankerous, scattershot, and often funny. Come for the celebrity anecdotes; stay for the cartoons..