{"product_id":"hollywood-notebook-essays-paperback-softback-9780810148581","title":"Hollywood Notebook; Essays (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810148581","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHollywood Notebook\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWendy C. Ortiz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810148581\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e17.8 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Wendy C. Ortiz is establishing herself as a powerful voice in the literary community... Readers who like their heroines scrappy and their prose lyrical will delight in \u003ci\u003eHollywood Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e's intimate descriptions of a restless mind at work.\" - \u003ci\u003eLARB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[S]uffused with the heritage of the city as a place for writers' Ortiz quietly observes the day-to-day life of the writer, the smell of food in the diners, the heat, the locales where writers hang out. An optimistic book that also reveals the hinterland and grain of a writing culture that goes back years.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The entire project becomes nearly reminiscent of the self-musings of Maggie Nelson, if Nelson were consulting astrological charts rather than philosophy \u003ci\u003eHollywood Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, then, is a sui generis gem, and one to take advantage of immediately. How often can we read a stranger's journals so guiltlessly, and with such satisfaction? Ortiz inspires it - she's laid herself bare, and in doing so dug deep in a way that so few memoirs can actually achieve.\" - Jeva Lange, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What are our own truths? How many ways do we tell our stories? We list them, turn them into poetics, tell half-lies and then reveal them over and over as we meet our various selves on the page. Reading Ortiz's \u003ci\u003eHollywood Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e is an invitation to the writer - to make lists that sing truths and half-truths, to call them out as false, until we finally find our sister-twin..\" - \u003ci\u003eWinter Tangerine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cartography of Hollywood and transformational wanderings, back in print\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A daylight traipse through early-aughts Los Angeles, \u003ci\u003eHollywood Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e encapsulates the powerful feelings and hopeful futures of twentysomething Wendy C. Ortiz. In this boundary-defying sister memoir to \u003ci\u003eBruja\u003c\/i\u003e, Ortiz navigates internal maps as she traverses external palm-treed streets, moving through her youthful twenties and into the pensiveness of her thirties. Peering at what lies ahead while dipping her toes into the past, Ortiz shows us that there is no place like Hollywood to unearth the joys of success and the blows of mistakes - both realized and denied. An innovative and bold examination of the daytime roaming mind, \u003ci\u003eHollywood Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e is a cartography of love, loss, and transformation in the face of a brilliant psyche in a vibrant city.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOne \u003cbr\u003e Two \u003cbr\u003e Three \u003cbr\u003e Four \u003cbr\u003e Five \u003cbr\u003e Six \u003cbr\u003e Seven \u003cbr\u003e Eight \u003cbr\u003e Nine \u003cbr\u003e Ten \u003cbr\u003e Eleven \u003cbr\u003e Twelve \u003cbr\u003e Thirteen \u003cbr\u003e Fourteen \u003cbr\u003e Fifteen \u003cbr\u003e Sixteen \u003cbr\u003e Seventeen \u003cbr\u003e Eighteen \u003cbr\u003e Nineteen \u003cbr\u003e Twenty \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-One \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Two \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Three \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Four \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Five \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Six \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Seven \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Eight \u003cbr\u003e Twenty-Nine \u003cbr\u003e Thirty \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-One \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-Two \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-Three \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-Four \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-Five \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-Six \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-Seven \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-Eight \u003cbr\u003e Thirty-Nine \u003cbr\u003e Forty \u003cbr\u003e Forty-One \u003cbr\u003e Forty-Two \u003cbr\u003e Forty-Three \u003cbr\u003e Forty-Four \u003cbr\u003e Forty-Five \u003cbr\u003e Forty-Six \u003cbr\u003e Forty-Seven \u003cbr\u003e Forty-Eight \u003cbr\u003e Forty-Nine \u003cbr\u003e Fifty \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-One \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-Two \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-Three \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-Four \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-Five \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-Six \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-Seven \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-Eight \u003cbr\u003e Fifty-Nine \u003cbr\u003e Sixty \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-One \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-Two \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-Three \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-Four \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-Five \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-Six \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-Seven \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-Eight \u003cbr\u003e Sixty-Nine \u003cbr\u003e Seventy \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-One \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-Two \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-Three \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-Four \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-Five \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-Six \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-Seven \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-Eight \u003cbr\u003e Seventy-Nine \u003cbr\u003e Eighty \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-One \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-Two \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-Three \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-Four \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-Five \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-Six \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-Seven \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-Eight \u003cbr\u003e Eighty-Nine \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555668029720,"sku":"9780810148581","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hollywood-notebook-essays-paperback-softback-9780810148581","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}