Beauty Talk & Monsters
"The impression that a dark movie theatre gives you is that you're furtive and safe and tucked away in a cognitive kangaroo pouch."
Masha Tupitsyn's debut novel, Beauty Talk & Monsters, is a collection of stories as influenced by the author's familiarity with film theory as it is by the punk fiction of Kathy Acker and the films of Brian De Palma.
Against a backdrop of life lived mostly in NYC, Tupitsyn coasts through memories of Dirty Dancing, Jaws, the works of Hitchcock and the lives of the stars, ripping them up in true academic fashion. But, rather than being tedious, this is eminently enjoyable as the narrator (who, fittingly, enacts a more voyeuristic than participatory existence) exposes her deepest secrets through musings on habits of repeat video viewings and reading alone in cafes.
For those to whom movies are an essential part of life, for disciples of publishing house Semiotext(e) - see Hatred of Capitalism, Reena Spaulings or I Love Dick - or for anyone who's been exposed to an Arts degree, Beauty Talk & Monsters is like the inside of your head, writ large.
Format: Book
Motivation: Improve your dinner conversation
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