The highly awarded playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his “smart, addictive, funny, and penetrating” stories from his four decades in Hollywood, where he has worked with some of the biggest names in cinema.

David Mamet went to Hollywood having already achieved success – a highly successful playwright who was called West in 1980 to write a play for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the bright stars of old Hollywood and enjoy the friendship of giants like Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Bob Evan, and Sue Mengers.

Over the next forty years, Mamet wrote dozens of screenplays, was fired from many movies, and directed eleven of his works. In “Everywhere an Oink Oink,” he expresses the internal and humor-filled professionalism of a film set. He depicts the transitional studios and producers who eat away at artists piece by piece. He examines the art of filmmaking and the courage of those who created our greatest movies.

With the boldness and inspiration characterizing Mamet’s best plays, this journal describes a world that has passed, some of our most beloved movie stars in relaxed moments, and how all of this was swept away by digital media and “woke” culture. The book is illustrated throughout with thirty sketches and biting caricatures by Mamet. “Everywhere an Oink Oink” is “nothing more than malice, angry comments, and sharp banter: in other words, Hollywood’s perfect book” (The Wall Street Journal).

Pages: 256, Year of Publication: 1204, Dimensions: 14x14cm