Zosia Mamet will reflect on her life in the entertainment industry in a new essay collection, People magazine reports.
Viking Books will publish the actor’s Does This Make Me Funny? in the fall. The press describes the book as “a collection of charmingly witty and achingly vulnerable essays about the challenge and magic of growing up in show business.”
Mamet, the daughter of playwright and screenwriter David Mamet and actor Lindsay Crouse, acted in series including Parenthood and Mad Men before landing her breakout role as Shoshanna Shapiro on Lena Dunham’s HBO series, Girls, in 2012.
She signed a two-book deal with Viking in 2021. The first book in the deal, My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings, featuring essays by Gabourey Sidibe, Tony Hale, Patti LuPone, and others, was published the following year; a critic for Kirkus called it “a good gift for foodies.”
The essays in her new book, Viking says, “introduce us to Zosia Mamet in all her glory—from her early days growing up in literary and dramatic circles, to her years as a young adult pining for acceptance and love, to her first attempts to make it as an actor, to where she (and Shosh) are now.”
Mamet shared the news of the new book on Instagram, writing, “Thank you to everyone who made this book possible. I couldn’t have done it without every one of you.…I’d write something more profound if I wasn’t having an out of body experience…”
Does This Make Me Funny? is scheduled for publication on Sept. 9.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
