Lance Pototschnik published his first book, The Shell of a Person, at age 25. The book was touted as one of the best of 2014 by an emerging, self-published author. Shell revealed Pototschnik as a unique talent, a writer with the rare power to make one laugh to and through the brink of undignified, maniacal, public cackling. Now, his latest book, Hollywood Ending, firmly establishes Pototschnik as a master memoirist who achieves poignancy in his writing by couching anguish inside of gut-busting humor.