Peter Farrelly’s The Comedy Writer, the story of Henry Halloran who (using the book’s Amazon listing decription): “gives up his job as a salesman in Boston and heads out west to polish and peddle the script he based on a recent breakup, Henry tumbles into a world of bizarre quasi celebrities, breathtakingly unprincipled producers, surgically enhanced starlets, and plain ordinary lunatics. The result is basically an unrelenting nightmare, guest-starring his uninvited roommate, the sister of a woman whose suicide he failed to prevent.”
The book is funnier than that description lets on. It’s also full of interesting perspectives on everyday life. I found it very enjoyable and the writing itself (style-wise) is great.
Farrelly’s other novel, Outside Providence, is a good read too.
Yes, this is one of the Farrelly brothers, and no I am not his agent or publisher. 