This week episode is a special Book Club episode digging into the brand new book Breaking Into New Hollywood: A Career Guide to a Changing Industry with Co-Author Ada Tseng. Come listen as we highlight the special features in this book and what went into bringing it to life. I'm honored to be featured in the Costume Design section of this book (along with this very podcast!) and it was a blast to turn the tables on Ada who interviewed me — now I get to interview her!

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Breaking Into New Hollywood: A Career Guide to a Changing Industry

Written by Ada Tseng & Jon Healy. Presented by the Los Angeles Times.

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Ada Tseng is the co-author of the upcoming book Breaking Into New Hollywood, with Jon Healey. She co-hosts the Asian American pop culture history podcast, Saturday School, with Brian Hu.

A former editor at the Los Angeles Times, Ada covers culture, lifestyle, health, style and travel. Her bylines include National Geographic, Center of Asian American Media, Women's Wear Daily, HowStuffWorks, The Washington Post, Public Radio International, NBC, LA Weekly, Asia Pacific Arts, Audrey Magazine and more.

Headshot photo by Leo Wu @wugrapher

The Los Angeles Times

Published since 1881, The Los Angeles Times is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States, as well as the largest newspaper in the western United States.

Ada Tseng & Book Links:

Simon & Schuster: Breaking into New Hollywood

LA Times: Want to break into Hollywood? Read this book

Instagram: @adatseng88

Saturday School Podcast

Substack: Ada Tseng

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