“… Jane Hall’s story mirrors those of many female professionals even today, who face immense pressures to maintain a certain look. Hall’s brushes with Hollywood and literary celebrities make great reading … This portrait of a more literary mass-market America offers much food for reflection on modern culture. A valuable, absorbing contribution to the history of women, golden-age Hollywood, and America’s magazine culture of the 1930s and ‘40s.” —KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW

“Such Mad Fun is … a seamless story of twentieth-century life narrated with style and verve and empathy.”—SCOTT EYMAN, New York Times best-selling author of John Wayne: The Life and Legend

“… an always fascinating tribute to a complex woman torn between home and career … Also revealing are the synopses of Jane’s short stories and screenplays, which illuminate the kinds of stories women were writing and reading—and watching—in that era of glossy surfaces and incipient rebellion.”—MOLLY HASKELL, author of From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

“… a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the studio system during its heyday … Cutler ably brings to life the milieus, both social and professional, Jane Hall inhabited during a fascinating life.”—RICHARD A. FINE, author of West of Eden: Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship

“… A beautifully written page-turner of Hollywood's Golden Age and the role of the woman wunderkind writer who was the author's mother. In the end, you'll understand better your twentieth-century matriarchs, and most likely yourself.”—BETTY BOOKER, long-time reporter and columnist Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch and Boomer Magazine

“Cutler is pitch-perfect in her description of the glittering social worlds of 1930's New York and Hollywood … written with the momentum of a page-turning novel, this excellent new book is a must read.”—LINDSAY C. GIBSON, PSY.D., author of Who You Were Meant to Be: A Guide to Finding or Recovering Your Life's Purpose