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End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood
Patty Lin
★★★★· Published 2023· 297 pages· read 2023
A TV writer (Friends, Breaking Bad) on why she walked away from Hollywood. Blunt, funny, and refreshingly unsentimental about the dream job.
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
Konnikova learns high-stakes poker to understand luck and self-control, and turns it into the best kind of psychology book. Fascinating.
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
A young neurosurgeon writes about his own dying as terminal cancer takes hold. Unbearably moving and somehow not depressing. Cried, of course.
★ 5Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
David Litt
One of Obama's speechwriters on what it was actually like inside the West Wing. Genuinely funny and, in hindsight, a little bittersweet.