Since starring in the movies he recounts throughout BRAT, Andrew McCarthy has become a director, award-winning travel writer, and New York Times bestselling author. He has directed more than 80 hours of television, including Orange in the New Black, Grace and Frankie, The Blacklist, New Amsterdam, Good Girls, Gossip Girl, and many others. For a dozen years, he served as editor-at-large at National Geographic Traveler and his award-winning travel writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, TIME, and elsewhere. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, the travel memoir The Longest Way Home and the young adult novel Just Fly Away. He’s also returned to acting and is appearing in 13 Reasons Why on Netflix and Good Girls on NBC.
