<p>I can think of no other writer who can better express the ine able sense of being born into the working poor before moving through di erent genres of living&mdash;hired factory hand, engineer, professor, poet, then back to hired academic hand&mdash;as he searches for a sense of the real through genres of writing&mdash;memoir, &nbsp;ction, poetry, criticism. <em>Samuel Taylor&rsquo;s Hollywood Adventure</em> is as engrossing as any written lived experience, only more so: a meditation on what it is not to be a Hollywood celebrity, war hero, or anyone of note, but a human trying to make it, and trying to make sense of &ldquo;it&rdquo; as a writer who can look back and see how much of our lives are composed by the constraints of storytelling we and our societies create. <em>Samuel Taylor&rsquo;s Hollywood Adventure</em> begins with poetics, but ends as philosophy.</p><p>&mdash;STEVE TOMASULA, author of <em>VAS: An Opera in Flatland</em>&nbsp;and <em>Once Human: Stories</em></p>