The Story
The Hollywood Misadventures of a Small-Town Girl
Tales of ambition, delusion, drugs, sex, and misogyny... including selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild bus
GIRL GONE WILD is a collection of exploits and delusions about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon and what happens when their pursuit becomes a new kind of trap. In this memoir-in-essays, Kocak takes readers along on her heady metamorphosis from girl to woman and from dreamer to professional artist, as she is transformed in this unwitting feminist coming-of-age. It's a wild, cringeworthy, and often heartbreaking tale, but with Kocak's wry wit and clear-eyed accounting, it's nothing short of captivating.
Author: Courtney Kocak
Publisher: Trio House Press
Published: 04/01/2026
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781949487541
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/09/2026
About the Author
Kocak, Courtney: - COURTNEY KOCAK is a writer, podcaster, and comedian who splits her time between Austin and Los Angeles. She has written for Amazon's Emmy-winning animated series Danger & Eggs, Netflix's Know It All, and outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Sun, HuffPost, and a viral essay for Cosmopolitan. She hosts the podcast Private Parts Unknown, which has over two million downloads to date. Her husband is hot and nice, and they have a cute dog named Joy-Joy (RIP Georgia). For more, visit www.courtneykocak.com.
Description
The Hollywood Misadventures of a Small-Town Girl
Tales of ambition, delusion, drugs, sex, and misogyny... including selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild bus
GIRL GONE WILD is a collection of exploits and delusions about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon and what happens when their pursuit becomes a new kind of trap. In this memoir-in-essays, Kocak takes readers along on her heady metamorphosis from girl to woman and from dreamer to professional artist, as she is transformed in this unwitting feminist coming-of-age. It's a wild, cringeworthy, and often heartbreaking tale, but with Kocak's wry wit and clear-eyed accounting, it's nothing short of captivating.
Author: Courtney Kocak
Publisher: Trio House Press
Published: 04/01/2026
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781949487541
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/09/2026
About the Author
Kocak, Courtney: - COURTNEY KOCAK is a writer, podcaster, and comedian who splits her time between Austin and Los Angeles. She has written for Amazon's Emmy-winning animated series Danger & Eggs, Netflix's Know It All, and outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Sun, HuffPost, and a viral essay for Cosmopolitan. She hosts the podcast Private Parts Unknown, which has over two million downloads to date. Her husband is hot and nice, and they have a cute dog named Joy-Joy (RIP Georgia). For more, visit www.courtneykocak.com.
