I remember some cinema executive telling me that what he loved most about Brazil were the hats. Our costume designer, Jim Acheson, was brilliant at finding quirky things, and the shoe hat worn by Katherine Helmond was actually real, a Schiaparelli.
So many interesting bits-- how royalties advances, and book proposals work, how the compariison between fast fashiion and fast publishing is obtuse and insultiing, and a brief history of dime novels.