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Narrator
Nick Bhasin
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Length
12 hours 50 minutes
Language
English
It's 2002. Britney and Justin are done. Low-rise jeans tyrannise the pants-wearing public. And Hector Singh, a 27-year-old eccentric, moderately talented yet extremely confident aspiring TV writer, is hell bent on 'making it' in LA. He's Puerto Rican and Indian but also post-race (or so he thinks) and he refuses to be intimidated by the Whites Only landscape of show business.
But when his mother dies suddenly, Hector's grief turns into depression, triggering dark thoughts and a binge eating disorder. He lands a potentially career-launching job as a writers' assistant on a TV drama, but antidepressants make things much worse.
With a series of implosions that threaten to sink his work and relationships, Hector unravels. Spectacularly.
Can he navigate Hollywood racism, diet culture oppression and crippling grief to survive this emotional crisis? Does he pull himself together in time to sell his TV show in a meeting with big producers? Will he catch an extremely fit Tom Cruise and give him a script?
Seems unlikely.
A hilarious, satirical, madcap and moving rollercoaster ride through the cutthroat world of Hollywood showbiz as seen through one person's descent into despair.
Nick Bhasin (Author, Reader)
Nick Bhasin is a culture writer and editor based in Sydney, but originally from the US. He occasionally appears on ABC Melbourne radio as a cultural attach� and his writing has been in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and McSweeney's. His satirical parenting blog, 'Daddy's Little Miracle', was selected to join The New York Times' parenting section's blogroll in 2013. Nick has worked as an editor for 10 Daily, SBS, Foxtel Magazine and OK! Magazine. He has a BA in History from Haverford College and a tremendous speaking voice.
Nick Bhasin (Author, Reader)
Nick Bhasin is a culture writer and editor based in Sydney, but originally from the US. He occasionally appears on ABC Melbourne radio as a cultural attach� and his writing has been in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and McSweeney's. His satirical parenting blog, 'Daddy's Little Miracle', was selected to join The New York Times' parenting section's blogroll in 2013. Nick has worked as an editor for 10 Daily, SBS, Foxtel Magazine and OK! Magazine. He has a BA in History from Haverford College and a tremendous speaking voice.