In One Nightstand , celebrity readers and writers join us at the blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process.

While growing up in Hollywood prepared Zosia Mamet for the demands of show business, nothing could have readied her for the loneliness. Especially the kind she experienced in her early 20s, when all of her friends had left for college, and she spent her days on audition after audition — the era she writes about in her wickedly acerbic essay collection, Does This Make Me Funny? , out Sept. 9. “All I would do at night was learn my lines and read a ton. I read a lot of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, John O’Hara,” Mamet tells Bustle. “I was a very lonely person but I could see myself in these

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