Writer and television producer David Milch recounts his life, both personal and working in this sharp-witted memoir. It begins with this sentence: “I’m on a boat sailing to some island where I don’t know anybody. A boat someone is operating and we aren’t in touch.” These two sentences perfectly sets the tone of Milch's unease about his future after being over the recent diagnosis with Lewy Body dementia. This is not an easy memoir to read and for many reasons, but it is a revelatory one for sure. If one didn't know it, this memoir would sound like a Hollywood screenwriting as it at times seems so unbelievable...but it is all fact.
The facts include his all consuming gambling addiction where he lost millions of dollars annually, his drinking and stealing booze at eight, getting thrown out of Yale Law School and being expelled for shooting out streetlights, manufacturing LSD in Mexico and more. What makes him all the more impressive is that he was able to write and create the highly popular series Deadwood and NYPD Blue during bouts of depression and being diagnosed and medicated for being bipolar (his words)
This is not a tell-all memoir, not at all. Rather it is self reflective work and one to be enjoyed at leisure.

* I read an advance copy and was not compensated