Our Secret Life in the Movies

"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