Lindy West on turning her memoir into Hulu's 'Shrill,' leaving Twitter and Miss Piggy
LOS ANGELES - When Lindy West was first approached about turning her best-selling memoir, "Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman," into a TV series, she was skeptical.
"There's not a lot of plot in me screaming about body positivity, but there's a lot of character in there," says West. "A lot of purpose."
West is known for her lacerating wit and avowedly feminist perspective in her work for Seattle's weekly newspaper The Stranger, the website Jezebel and, more recently, The New York Times.
"The book is introducing you to a fat person you can love and get to know on an intimate, complex level - that person being me. It eventually clicked that we could do that same thing in a show, give people this funny, complicated fat protagonist to fall in love with and hopefully shake up some of people's biases a little bit."
The comedy, which premiered this month on Hulu, stars "Saturday Night Live" breakout Aidy Bryant as Annie, a lightly fictionalized version of
