I'm thinking maybe books like this aren't wholly my thing, because I'm struggling with the format. I didn't find this super funny, which granted, I'm not sure it's supposed to be. I guess ultimately I don't actually care that much about Hollywood, and the places about which West writes, or I've read works by other authors that feel more insightful on the same topics (for all of my beef with it, I did think Mona Eltahway's The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls covered similar topics more effectively.) West seems to vacillate between acknowledging the horror of the current administration as a break, and as a continuation, in ways that are contradictory. If the US has always been like this, or been like it for many people (as she is quick to acknowledge) then some of what she writes looks late, or coming from someone who has only recently had to grapple with the realities of the current situation (which I don't think is true, but it definitely reads that way.( Again, I think comparing her writing to Tressie McMillan Cottom's writings about US politics in Thick makes this point better than I am making it in the moment, so I'd say read that book maybe alongside this one and see how you feel.

I get, I think, why people love her writing so much, and I can see how it would resonate with a certain audience, but ultimately I was mostly disappointed by this. Some of the essays were pretty good--her essay about Joan Rivers in particular was a lovely reflection--but overall I didn't love the book.