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Hallie Cantor

Biography

Hallie Cantor

Hallie Cantor is an Emmy-nominated television writer for shows, including "Arrested Development," "Lady Dynamite!," "Dollface" and "Inside Amy Schumer." Her work has been published in The New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs, New York magazine, NPR’s This American Life, and the humor anthology Notes From the Bathroom Line. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, who is --- yes --- a therapist. LIKE THIS, BUT FUNNIER is her debut novel.

Hallie Cantor

Books by Hallie Cantor

Like This, But Funnier
by Hallie Cantor - Fiction, Humor

TV writer Caroline Neumann is 34 and mired in professional envy and self-hatred. Even Harry, her usually supportive therapist husband, thinks it’s time for her to press pause on her career ambitions and focus on getting pregnant, despite Caroline’s serious ambivalence about having children. When Caroline accidentally stumbles on Harry’s patient session notes and offhandedly mentions what she finds in a meeting with a producer, the momentum of Hollywood takes over. Before she knows it --- and unbeknownst to Harry --- Caroline finds herself pitching a TV show about the deepest secrets of her husband’s favorite patient, a woman known to Caroline only as the Teacher. And when Caroline forms a real-life relationship with Teacher herself, the lines between art and life begin to blur further, shaking up Caroline’s understanding of what it means to be the “likeable female protagonist” of her own life.