This hilar­i­ous, whip-smart col­lec­tion of essays from a top writer and pro­duc­er of Six Feet Under criss­cross­es from the high­ly per­son­al (con­flat­ing her own loss of vir­gin­i­ty and the Kobe Bryant accu­sa­tions), to the polit­i­cal (what she has in com­mon with Mon­i­ca and Chan­dra), to the out­ra­geous­ly Los Ange­lean (why women wear huge dia­monds and what they must do to get them). Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants is a genre-defy­ing com­bi­na­tion of per­son­al essay and mem­oir, or a hilar­i­ous, unruly and unapolo­getic eval­u­a­tion of soci­ety, reli­gion, sex, love, and — best of all — Jill Soloway.