Jim Miller dicusses TINDERBOX with Matt Belloni

133 North Larchmont Boulevard,Los Angeles CA 90004

13 January, 2022

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Book Talk with Jim Miller in-conversation w/ Matt Belloni with a signing of TINDERBOX afterword at Chevalier's Books. Can't make it to the event? Pre-order a signed copy here! ABOUT THE BOOK Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession...HBO has long been the home of epic shows, as well as the source for brilliant new movies, news-making documentaries, and controversial sports journalism. By thinking big, trashing tired formulas, and killing off cliches long past their primes, HBO shook off the shackles of convention and led the way to a bolder world of content, opening the door to all that was new, original, and worthy of our attention. In Tinderbox, award-winning journalist James Andrew Miller uncovers a bottomless trove of secrets and surprises, revealing new conflicts, insights, and analysis. As he did to great acclaim with SNL in Live from New York; with ESPN in Those Guys Have All the Fun; and with talent agency CAA in Powerhouse, Miller continues his record of extraordinary access to the most important voices, this time speaking with talents ranging from Abrams (J. J.) to Zendaya, as well as every single living president of HBO--and hundreds of other major players. Over the course of more than 750 interviews with key sources, Miller reveals how fraught HBO's journey has been, capturing the drama and the comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe, and, in doing so, reshaped storytelling and upended our entertainment lives forever. ABOUT THE AUTHOR James Andrew Miller is an award-winning journalist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN; Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency; Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list; and Running in Place: Inside the Senate, also a bestseller. He has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. ABOUT THE INTERLOCUTOR Matthew Belloni is an experienced content executive and entrepreneur who has successfully managed large teams of creators, serving as the top editor of a leading entertainment publication and appearing frequently as an analyst on television, as well as practicing law as an attorney in the entertainment industry. Belloni is currently Founding Partner of Puck, a next-generation digital media company covering the power centers of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington and New York. He joined Puck in May 2021 and writes a twice-weekly newsletter called What I’m Hearing about the entertainment industry. As editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter from 2016 to 2020, Belloni was responsible for editorial content and initiatives at the iconic entertainment media outlet. Belloni oversaw all of THR’s editorial properties, including its weekly print magazine; THR.com and its digital verticals; on- and off-platform video content, podcasts and live events. Chevalier's Books is the oldest independent bookstore in Los Angeles, located in Larchmont Village.