"Young woman moves to the big city to "make it" as an artist -- it\'s a classic bildungsroman.
Each tenderly wrought detail evokes the crackling sense of wonder we feel as young adults wh.
Hollywood Notebook \'s narrator worries, in these frantic, disparate journal entries, about rent, overdue library books, joblessness, and the lack of cold running tap water...
You can hear the growl of the Metro bus on every page, feel the squeak of the Naugahyde chair, and smell the cigarette smoke. "Young woman moves to the big city to "make it" as an artist -- it\'s a classic bildungsroman