Former TV writer Patty Lin takes some shots at the industry with her memoir End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood. Lin wrote for Friends, Breaking Bad, Freaks and Geeks and Desperate Housewives, among other series, but departed the writers room when the “chaotic, abusive, male-dominated work culture,” according to the book’s back copy, got to be too much. Lin was “not just…one of the few women in the room, but the only Asian person,” the copy notes.
Lin talks about her first TV job as assistant to a production manager on The Late Show with David Letterman, moving to Los Angeles to write for late ‘90s comedy Martial Law, landing on Freaks and Geeks, and meeting with a bunch of TV luminaries, including Carlton Cuse, Paul Feig, Ben Silverman and Judd Apatow.
