What's it like being a woman TV writer in Hollywood?

Nelskovel will be here to tell us about her memoir, Just the Funny Parts.

What makes the workplace different from women than it is for men?

Joanne Lippmann will talk about her new book, That's What She Said.

Plus, our critics, Parle Sagle and Jen Soli will join us to talk about the new vanguard

in women's fiction.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Nelskovel joins us now to talk about her new memoir, Just the Funny Parts, and a few

hard truths about sneaking into the Hollywood Boys Club.

Now thank you so much for being here.

Oh, thank you.

So you have this very nifty thing in your book, which is a job timeline, which tells us exactly

everything that you have done in your career.

And I won't make you go through the entire thing.

But tell us a little bit and also about why you decided to put that timeline in.

The timeline is there because so much of what Hollywood writers do doesn't get produced.

So if you go to my IMDB page, they will only list produced projects.

And that may be a third of what I've actually worked on.

That's very clever.

Because you hear that from people in Hollywood all the time that you can be fully employed

and have nothing to show for it.

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