They Went Another Way
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In January of 2022, Bruce Eric Kaplan found himself confused and upset by the state of the world and the state of his life as a television writer in Los Angeles. He started a journal to keep from going mad. That journal is now They Went Another Way.
The book's through line traces his trying to get a television project set up in the increasingly Byzantine world of Hollywood. But as he details the project’s ups and downs, Bruce finds himself not only ruminating on show business, but also on today’s political and social issues, on old movies and TV shows and music, on his family, on his friends, on his past, on his failing heating system, and on all the dead birds that kept showing up in his backyard.
This hilarious and surprisingly moving book is about life - about art, about love, about alienation, about connection, about ugliness and beauty, about disappointment and wonder and hope. In short it is about everything. And if it’s not, it almost is.
Bruce Eric Kaplan was born in New Jersey and moved to Los Angeles when he was twenty-one. He had a million bad jobs until finally, he became a television writer and producer. Over the years, he worked on such shows as Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, and Girls. Currently, he is a writer/producer on two Netflix shows, No Good Deed and Too Much, both currently scheduled to premiere at the end of 2024. Kaplan is also a cartoonist. He first appeared in The New Yorker over thirty years ago and he has been a regular contributor ever since. He has done over a thousand cartoons as well as over a dozen covers for the magazine. After his children were born, he started writing and illustrating picture books. The first was called Monsters Eat Whiney Children, and he subsequently wrote four other picture books. In addition, he has three collections of cartoons published, written and illustrated four picture books for adults, and wrote and illustrated a memoir, I Was a Child.