The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle

The Great American Whatever
Fiction F318g
Tim Federle

Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before—before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and before Annabeth was killed in a car accident.

Enter Geoff, Quinn’s best friend who insists it’s time that Quinn came out—at least from hibernation. One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy—a hot one—and falls hard. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending—if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story.

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Filmish by Edward Ross

Filmish
GN R733f
Edward Ross

Cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favorite movies. In Filmish, Ross’s cartoon alter ego guides readers through the annals of cinematic history, introducing some of the strange and fascinating concepts at work in the movies. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme—the body, architecture, language—and explores an eclectic mix of cinematic triumphs, from A Tripto the Moon to Top Gun. Like other bestselling nonfiction graphic novels such as Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, Filmish tackles serious issues—sexuality, race, censorship, propaganda—with authority and wit, throwing new light on some of the greatest films ever made

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Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans  

edited by Dave Eggers

808.87 C8602

Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy wasn't too giddy to begin with.

What can be done to stop this relentless march of drabbery? Nothing. But perhaps this book can be used to dull the pain. Included herein:

 The Ten Worst Films of All Time, as Reviewed by Ezra Pound over Italian Radio

 Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring DVD (Platinum Series Extended Edition), Part One.

 How Important Moments in My Life Would Have Been Different If I Was Shot in the Stomach

 My Beard, Reviewed

 Circumstances under Which I Would Have Sex with Some of My Fellow Jurors

 Words That Would Make Nice Names for Babies, If It Weren't for Their Unsuitable Meanings

 As a Porn Movie Titler, I May Lack Promise

 Ineffective Ways to Subdue a Jaguar

Eleven Lunch Meats I Have Invented

 Four Things I Would Have Said to Sylvia Plath if I Had Been Her Boyfriend

 And much, much more, including 20 brilliant new lists . . .

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