14 June 2021
Having her nonfiction book of essays, "Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman," turned into a streaming scripted comedy in 2019 checked many boxes for Lindy West. It directly responded to the book's critique of the lack of visual representation of fat women in the media by making "a piece of representation that's exactly the thing I'd been missing," she says, while also fulfilling her dream of writing for television.
