This one's Charisma, right?

(this is primarily a response to Text Publishing's habit of releasing novellas as c-format paperbacks with a needlessly large font)

Her memoir and her other novel don't fit that bill, though (the latter is hyper aware of that precise sort of pigeon-holing). Finding this framing very strange (I've not read the new book)

Transit really is the highlight of the trilogy. I bounced off Outline also, loved Transit and found Kudos a lightly amusing victory lap.

real good movie. if the cinema sequence appeals in particular, this may also appeal: vimeo.com/332108492

gameObject Permanence explores lost, cancelled, abandoned and shut down video games, from less-storied entries in the Sim franchise and a Superman clone for the NES to a window into the final day of The Matrix Online.

Game Worlds runs until early February 2026: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...

the chaka khan section is fever dream territory

From the same team as Two Minutes but even lighter (though very charming) is River.

Perhaps not quite the same vibe but incredible timeloop/ perceived timeloop films from Iranian filmmmaker Shahram Mokri - Fish & Cat, and Invasion.

for whatever reason the verse vocals over that instrumental call to mind Scritti Politti

been on my to-watch for a while, I loved the Stanley Ellin novel when I read it a decade ago