![]() Actually, readers have compared Pessl with Wallace before her first novel was also brainy and fat and full of ideas. This might remind you a little of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, in which there's a video that's supposed to be so incredibly entertaining that people who see it simply get totally absorbed in it and eventually die. Stanislas Cordova makes movies supposedly so terrifying that at so-called "red-band screenings," held in condemned buildings or tunnels under the city, some people faint in fear. The narrator, Scott McGrath, is an investigative journalist who's long had his eye on a creepy filmmaker. ![]() This sprawling book uses made-up documents of all kinds: newspaper clippings, photographs, police reports, magazine articles supposedly taken from publications like Time and Rolling Stone, and transcripts of chatter on an ultra-culty, closed online community called "The Blackboards," to tell its thriller of a story. ![]() So if you want to know what Anna Karenina looks like, well, you just have to read the book.īut Marisha Pessl's Night Film is eager to bust out of that old-fashioned, "he had blue eyes and she fell to her death" kind of storytelling. Usually, novels have no visual aids at all. They can't be plugged in, they've got no buttons or knobs, and they don't make your eyes pop out of your head as you watch creatures or asteroids zigzag across a screen. ![]() Marisha Pessl is also the author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics. ![]()
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