Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Actress of a Certain Age | 2025 | Jeff Hiller | Buy |
Actress of a Certain Age arrived in 2025 as Jeff Hiller’s first book, and it reflects the sensibility he’s brought to his stage and screen work: sharp observation, self-aware humor, and a willingness to be vulnerable. The title itself plays on the phrase used to describe actresses of a particular age in Hollywood, turned here to examine what it means to be a middle-aged gay man who spent years working steadily before anyone outside the theater world knew his name.
Hiller writes about his years in New York theater, the friendships and disappointments that came with that life, and what changed when Somebody Somewhere gave him a new kind of visibility. The book will appeal to fans of the show as well as readers who enjoy memoirs about the less-glamorous side of show business.