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I haven’t stopped thinking about I Saw the TV Glow , the new A24 film from writer/director Jane Schoenbrun, since seeing it over the weekend. It’s one of the best movies of the year (I scream-cried in the car on the way home) and while I think it’s best seen with as little context as possible—if you’re the kind to take a flyer on a blind-date book in your local indie, stop reading about it now and go see it—my simple synopsis would be that it’s about a lonely teenager named Owen who bonds with another outcast named Maddy over a Buffy -meets- Twin-Peaks -meets- Pete-&-Pete TV series. After Maddy disappears and the show gets cancelled, Owen’s understanding of his self and his reality starts to falter. It is also about so much more than that, and it’s the kind of art that sends you out into the world desperate for more things like it… so here’s a list of novels to dive into while you wait for season six of The Pink Opaque . And let me know what you think if you see the movie and read any of these—I’m longing to talk about… well, really, all of it. Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners The whole time I was watching the movie, I kept thinking about Kelly Link. I Saw the TV Glow isn’t an adaptation of a Link story but I mean it as the highest of compliments to say that it often feels like one. The title story from Magic for Beginners is an obvious touchpoint with its teen protagonists and their love for a strange TV series, but something about the way that Link writes into the emotional core of her main characters will absolutely make you think about Owen and Maddy and your own teen years. See also: Link’s The Book of Love , which also features teens, death, strange art, and blurred realities. Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) Schoenbrun has been open about how their work directly addresses gender dysphoria and trans identity, and Hazel Jane Plante’s novel of […]
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This week’s story, “ Between the Shadow and the Soul ,” is about a fifty-year-old woman named Eliza who has
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