Our Secret Life in the Movies - by Michael McGriff & J M Tyree (Paperback)

About the Book

A whip-smart fiction debut, Our Secret Life in the Movies riffs on classic and cult cinema.

Book Synopsis

A whip-smart fiction debut, Our Secret Life in the Movies riffs on classic and cult cinema.

Review Quotes

"Wildly intelligent and deeply felt, Our Secret Life in the Movies gives us a fascinating look at American life, shot through an insightful and compassionate lens. After reading it, the world seems bigger. A tremendous book."-Molly Antopol "Reading Our Secret Life in the Movies is like finding a lost frequency on the AM dial. The voices you hear in this book are strange, hypnotic, and intensely American."-Jim Gavin "A book of poignant and affecting beauty. Readers are presented with characters who are losing their innocence in lockstep with the changing nation they inhabit, and the end result is a book that provides great insight into both who we are and how we got this way. A remarkable achievement."-Skip Horack "A beautiful aftershock of the movies."-David Gordon Green "An intriguing, frequently affecting experiment that challenges its readers to think anew about sharpening and refracting their memories of both life and art."-Kirkus Reviews "Brilliant."-BBC "Indelibly wrought." -Vogue "A co authored mash note to cinema classics."-The Paris Review Daily

About the Author

Michael McGriff's books include Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection; Dismantling the Hills; a translation of Tomas Tranströmer's The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010); and an edition of David Wevill's essential writing, To Build My Shadow a Fire. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and his work has been recognized with a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. J. M. Tyree is the author of BFI Film Classics: Salesman, and the coauthor, with Ben Walters, of BFI Film Classics: The Big Lebowski, from the British Film Institute. His writing on cinema has been published in Sight & Sound, The Believer, and Film Quarterly. A former Truman Capote-Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, he currently works as an associate editor of New England Review.