A review by wordcommando
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

5.0

A micro-chapter masterpiece. The nihilistic hollowness of superficial showbiz success so exquisitely rendered. Captures so much about this shitty town called Hollywood as well as the American West. One of my favorite novellas of all time. This and Robert Stones Children of Light are the two best novels written about filmmaking and the futility of trying to sustain the soul in a collaborative medium that has so many flawed team members.