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Week of August 28, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of August 28th include A SONG OF COMFORTABLE CHAIRS, the 23rd installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which finds Grace Makutsi encountering a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe’s cleverness and generosity to resolve; BABEL by R. F. Kuang, a thematic response to THE SECRET HISTORY and a tonal retort to JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire; Kieran Scott's REGRETS ONLY, a fast-paced domestic thriller about a single mom who goes undercover to investigate a host of disturbing secrets held by the leaders of a local suburban parent-school association; and the paperback original END CREDITS, screenwriter Patty Lin's funny, fresh, eye-opening and inside-Hollywood story that will resonate with anyone trying to please their parents, maintain a love life, and find their way in the world.

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Patty Lin, author of End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

What if achieving your professional dreams comes at too high a personal cost? That’s what screenwriter Patty Lin started to ask herself after years in the cutthroat TV industry. One minute she was a tourist, begging her way into the audience of “Late Night with David Letterman.” Just a few years later, she was an insider who --- through relentless hard work and sacrifice --- had earned a seat in the writers’ rooms of the hottest TV shows of all time. While writing for “Friends,” “Freaks and Geeks,” “Desperate Housewives” and “Breaking Bad,” Patty steeled herself against the indignities of a chaotic, abusive, male-dominated work culture, not just as one of the few women in the room, but as the only Asian person.

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