Mamet

Grier: I went to a performance of a David Mamet show on Broadway.

The con artist in Ritter’s novel is a young woman with a murky past and visions of absconded riches who is ensnared in an elaborate swindle that recalls David Mamet at his most labyrinthine.

Zosia Mamet: I mean, I knew it was you when I read it, and I think I probably would have felt differently about it if I didn’t know that information.

But however frustrating the series can be — and some will not find it frustrating at all — Khan and Bradford write funny dialogue, and Hsu and Mamet are very, very funny delivering it.

David Mamet might know how to make the most of a character like Joan Rivers, an entertainment hero and antihero, whose story was an American one of success at any cost.