Maggie Rowe

A Story of Redemption from Myself

Easy Street

Laura Silverman

Andersen Gabrych

Kevin Nealon

Jonathan Schmock

Eddie Pepitone

Amy Stiller

Mary Birdsong

Richard Belze

Randy Sklar

Taylor Negron 

C. Brian Smith

Claudia Lonow

Every other Thursday on Santa Monica Boulevard’s Comedy Central Stage, a motley assortment of prolific Hollywood writers, actors, and comics convene to reveal the most personal—and colorful—parts of their lives. Their soul-baring monologues reveal the sources of their creative genius, from wacky families, to psycho exes, random ramblings, and unbelievable Hollywood insights. This hilarious collection, featuring a foreword by Arrested Development's Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely, includes some of their best confessions. It provides an inside scoop on Hollywood, including stories on mishaps at the Emmys, writing for popular shows, being put in a sleeper hold by Hulk Hogan, growing up in famous families, and what it’s like to play Jan Brady. Funny, embarrassing, or dirty (or a combination thereof), but always brutally honest, Dirty Laundry shines a voyeuristic light on the underbellies of the people who have sold their souls to the entertainment biz. Authors include Maggie Rowe, Andersen Gabrych, Doug Benson, Kevin Nealon, Richard Belzer, Amy Stiller, Laura Silverman, Mary Birdsong, Taylor Negron, Randy Sklar, Kelly Carlin-McCall, Jennifer Elise Cox, Tom Saunders, Eileen Conn, Carlos Kotkin, Eddie Pepitone, Mark Evan Jackson, C. Brian Smith, Davis McHenry, Matt Price, David Landsberg, David Chrisman, Keith Blaney, Andrea Abbate, Jonathan Schmock, Jen Sincero, Claudia Lonow, Jackie Kashian, Shaz Bennet, B. Mark Seabrooks, Stirling Gardner, and Drew Droege.

Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny.

Dirty Laundry

Anderson Gabrych

Every other Thursday in a building on Santa Monica Boulevard, a motley assortment of prolific Hollywood writers, actors and comics convene to reveal the most personal - and colorful - parts of their lives. Their soul-baring monlogues display the sources of their creative genius, from wacky families, to unblievable Hollywood insights, to psycho exes, to random ramblings. This hilarious collection includes some of their best stories. Funny, embarrassing, or dirty, (or a combination thereof), but always brutally honest, Dirty Laundry shines a voyeuristic light on the underbellies of those who have sold their soul to the entertainment biz. "Something magical happens twice a month...It's an evening of dependably fun 'n' funny readings or writings by industry folks letting off whatever creative bursts they feel like." -LA Weekly

Real Life, Real Stories, Real Funny

A tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell--an NPR Best Book of the Year. As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian —regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the “good news” that they were going to hell. Finally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility. And that is where her journey really began. Surrounded by a ragtag cast of characters, including a former biker meth-head struggling with anger management issues, a set of identical twins tormented by erotic fantasies, a World War II veteran and artist of denial who insists that he’s only “locked up for a tune-up,” and a warm and upbeat chronic depressive who becomes the author’s closest ally, Maggie launches a campaign to, in the words of Martin Luther, "Sin bravely in order to know the forgiveness of God."

A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience

Sin Bravely

Maggie Rowe

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