Zosia Mamet Reveals Cover For ‘Does This Make Me Funny?’ (Exclusive)

Zosia Mamet needs you to take a chew of her mind’s charcuterie platter — no, actually.

The Girls alum, 37, is gearing as much as launch her debut guide, Does This Make Me Funny?, a smattering of tales that span her upbringing as a self-described “B-minus nepo child” to the current and PEOPLE can completely reveal its cowl.

The actress’s debut guide, set to launch Sept. 9, goals to supply a never-before-seen glimpse into her thoughts, she tells PEOPLE completely.

“I feel this guide is just a little bit like a charcuterie platter … of the within of my mind,” says Zosia, the daughter of actress Lindsay Crouse and playwright David Mamet.

“There’s just a little little bit of every little thing,” she provides. “There’s some private trauma, some comedic aid, some insane tales from my childhood and younger maturity after I was pretending to be a hooligan, some love, some hate … Ya know, cheese, prosciutto, dates, pistachios.”

As for what she hopes to perform with mentioned metaphorical snack plate? “My foremost aim with something I create is to assist individuals really feel much less alone,” Zosia tells PEOPLE. “And, hopefully, to make them snicker. So that is what I hope readers get from this guide. A very good chuckle, and the reminder that, it doesn’t matter what they’re going by way of, good, unhealthy or ugly, they aren’t alone.”

Although it does mark her debut as an writer, Zosia beforehand edited a set of essays and recipes, My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Meals and Emotions. Revealed in 2022, the essay anthology featured work from Patti LuPone, Kaley Cuoco, Busy Philipps and extra — however Does This Make Me Funny? is all her.

Billed as a “assortment of charmingly witty and achingly susceptible essays in regards to the problem and magic of rising up in present enterprise,” the gathering is a re-introduction of types to The Flight Attendant actress.

“You could know Zosia Mamet from her singular position as Shoshanna on Ladies, or for being one in every of Hollywood’s unique nepo infants (or as she says, “a B-minus nepo child, a nepito child if you’ll”),” an official description reads.

“What you may not know,” the synopsis continues, “is that as a toddler she visited theaters the place her mother was rehearsing, crawling round on the ground and scrunching herself between seats; that she earnestly believed in Santa Claus for means too lengthy; that she spent years navigating physique picture points in hopes of discovering elusive self-love and that she was so overwhelmed and overjoyed when lastly assembly her idol David Sedaris that she hid within the lavatory and melted right into a ‘puddle of glitter.’ ”

The essays within the upcoming guide, the synopsis teases, “introduce us to Zosia Mamet in all her glory — from her early days rising up in literary and dramatic circles, to her years as a younger grownup pining for acceptance and love, to her first makes an attempt to make it as an actor, to the place she (and [her Girls character] Shosh) are actually.”

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Does This Make Me Funny? comes out Sept. 9 and is obtainable for preorder now, wherever books are offered.