![]() ![]() The BROOKLYN screening for the 12th annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival! At the Dweck Auditorium at the Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza). Bookselling on-site by Trident Booksellers & Cafe. Co-hosted by me and author Rebecca Mahoney ( The Valley and the Flood and The Memory Eater). The BOSTON screening for the 12th annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival! At the Rabb Auditorium at the Boston Public Library Central Library in Copley Square (700 Boylston Street). Co-hosted by me and author Keir Graff ( The Tiny Mansion, The Phantom Tower). The CHICAGO screening for the 12th annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival! At the Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library Center (400 S State St). GENERAL DEADLINE for movie submissions to the 12th annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival. Daniel Kraus, co-author of The Shape of Water (Get a signed copy!) ![]() A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny clip of a doomed antihero." Dare to Know is what happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix. "A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. After you finish it you’ll want to go back to the start and read it again." - SFX Magazine superb piece of storytelling: vivid, thought provoking and unsettling. “An entertainingly mind-bending read.”- Financial Times "Explores questions of free will, psychology and human history in a fascinating, compulsively readable thriller."- The Guardian "A voraciously readable page-turner of a novel, part creepypasta, part thought-experiment." - Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Radicalized Essential reading for the gathering dark." - The Times Saturday Review "Worth the cover price for sheer insolence alone. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer-and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.Īudaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying novel reveals the mythbound madness at the heart of American life. ![]() Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them. In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this inventive, mind-bending horror-thriller. A young woman's secretive Midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation–and she must escape it before it claims her. ![]()
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