Hey guys! I’m so excited to share with you guys today a special book spotlight for author Tucker Lieberman and his novel, “Most Famous Short Film of All Time”, a nonfiction/fiction hybrid that you won’t be able to put down. Below you will find some information on the book, an excerpt from the book, and some info on the author himself.
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Book Info and Purchase Links:
Most Famous Short Film of All Time
by Tucker Lieberman
Munich: tRaum Books, 2022
Publisher’s website: https://traumbooks.com/most-famous-short-film-of-all-time/
Author’s website: https://tuckerlieberman.com/most-famous-short-film-of-all-time/
Booklife: https://booklife.com/project/most-famous-short-film-of-all-time-80120
Paperback
$23.25 US: Bookshop
£21.99 UK: Waterstones
$25 US: Barnes & Noble
$25 US: Amazon
Ebook
$11.99 Kindle
$11.99 Kobo
$8 Itch
$8 Gumroad
Book Description
Ghosts and goddesses beckon Lev Ockenshaw. Oh, bother. Fortunately, he’s got a pill for that. In 2014, Lev is happily telling campfire stories in Boston with his longtime friend, Stanley, and his coworker, Aparna. One day, he receives an anonymous, threatening email referring to the company where he and Aparna work. Lev reports the threat to his boss, but is not believed.
Invoking over 250 books, songs, and movies, Most Famous Short Film of All Time is a non/fiction-hybrid philosophical novel about:
- the nature of time
- the ever-present threat of gun violence in the United States
- the unhelpfulness of institutions and systems
- the importance of solidarity and transparency and being excellent to your friends
- belonging to Gen X or the Millennial generation
- being a fictional character and realizing you’re stuck in your own story
- the hazards of disclosing or not disclosing a gender transition you’ve already completed
- the neverendingness of the journey
- all 486 frames of the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination
- belief and unbelief
- prejudice, perception, and ethical action/inaction
- undoing/redoing decisions and trying harder
- reading as many books as you possibly can
- the role of playfulness, irony, and absurdity
- burning things that do not serve
Excerpt from the book
[introductory remark to explain that it’s an excerpt]
“Flyleaf — By Which I Do Not Mean Myself” is one of the character’s Lev Ockenshaw’s musings in Most Famous Short Film of All Time. Here, he’s thinking about The Lord of the Rings and is indirectly wondering who’s telling his story.
[here’s the excerpt]
J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, wrote in a letter (categorized as Letter 192) that “Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far.” Frodo’s destination was Mount Doom, but he could not muster the energy to throw the ring into the lava. Tolkien continued: “The Other Power then took over: the Writer of the Story (by which I do not mean myself), ‘that one ever-present Person who is never absent and never named’ (as one critic has said).” A boss within the novel, directing Frodo’s story. A writer who isn’t the writer.
About the Author
Tucker Lieberman is the author of the nonfiction Painting Dragons, Bad Fire, andTen Past Noon, as well as a bilingual poetry collection, Enkidu Is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está, recognized as a finalist in the 2020 Grayson Books Poetry Contest and nominated for the 2022 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.
His essay on a horror film appears in It Came From the Closet (Feminist Press, 2022). He’s contributed to three anthologies recognized by Lambda Literary: Balancing on the Mechitza (North Atlantic Books, 2011 Lambda winner), Letters For My Brothers (Wilgefortis, 2012 Lambda finalist), and Trans-Galactic Bike Ride (Microcosm, 2021 Lambda finalist). His flash fiction was recognized in the 2019 STORGY Magazine Flash Fiction Competition.
His husband is the science fiction writer Arturo Serrano, author of To Climates Unknown (2021) and contributor to the Hugo-winning blog nerds of a feather, flock together. They live in Bogotá, Colombia.
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