October 20th, 2011 / 1:47 am
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Megan Boyle Book Trailer

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  1. October 20th, 2011 / 1:53 am spencer—

      selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda

  2. October 20th, 2011 / 5:07 am Sks—

      This trailer gives me no idea whether or not I would want to read this book. How could it. What is the fucking point of these things? Maybe what they should do is hold a page of the book up to the camera and let me read it. 

  3. October 20th, 2011 / 8:11 am marshall—
  4. October 20th, 2011 / 8:19 am chris—

      I think the point is that two minutes ago I did not know this book existed and now I know this book exists. Next time I am in a bookstore I am more likely to pick up the book and flick through it and try to determine whether it is something I want to read than I was before. I think that’s the point, angry Sks.

  5. October 20th, 2011 / 8:52 am marshall—

      you know about it because blake posted a thing about it on htmlgiant, tho

      if he had just posted a sentence that said “megan boyle has a book called ‘selected unpublished…'” you would have known it existed, too

      the question is, i guess, if blake would have posted anything about it if no book trailer existed

  6. October 20th, 2011 / 9:33 am Justindtaylor—

      Nice. Thanks for posting this.

  7. October 20th, 2011 / 9:58 am Morning Bites: Typewriters, Rimbaud’s birthday, Adbusters, Megan Boyle’s trailer, and more | Vol. 1 Brooklyn—

      […] Megan Boyle’s book trailer that looked like it took a long time to make. […]

  8. October 20th, 2011 / 10:38 am Leapsloth14—

      I thought it was an endearing book trailer and made me want to check out the book, so, for this one reader, it worked.

  9. October 20th, 2011 / 4:46 pm M-Mull—

      I’m teaching a class at Ball State where my students are creating Book Trailers as well as what I’m calling visual literature.  I made youtube channel for them with examples (good and bad) of such things: http://www.youtube.com/user/NewBookMedia?feature=mhee.  I like what Megan’s done here and I’ll pass it along to my students

  10. October 20th, 2011 / 5:33 pm Cvan—

      I’m told that upon viewing Megan’s book trailer Miranda July threw her coffee mug at her stuffed animals in anger, the word-by-word cuts being July’s next movie in a nutshell.

  11. October 20th, 2011 / 5:50 pm stephen—

      i like it

  12. October 20th, 2011 / 6:19 pm Lilzed—

      i liked it a lot

  13. October 20th, 2011 / 11:12 pm chris—

      And if Blake had posted that sentence whether it would have stuck in my mind enough to trigger the association if and when I saw the book in the bookstore?

  14. October 20th, 2011 / 11:28 pm Guest—

      she’s like if Joan Baez worked at Anthropologie

  15. October 21st, 2011 / 7:39 am Anonymous—
  16. October 21st, 2011 / 10:13 am Anonymous—

      hey, mb, i remember when we levitated you. nice job!

  17. October 21st, 2011 / 11:07 am Anonymous—
  18. October 21st, 2011 / 2:13 pm Tim Horvath—

      Engaging. That’s the A-to-Z of it. Appetite-whetter, carnival barker. I’m intrigued.

  19. October 21st, 2011 / 4:47 pm RyanP—

      but i don’t want to buy another book

  20. October 21st, 2011 / 6:01 pm Matthew Simmons—

      I’ve been reading this book and I like it a lot.

  21. October 22nd, 2011 / 10:16 am cvan—

      May I ask, what is there to like?  From following the links, the content just seems like filler and fripperie.

  22. October 22nd, 2011 / 12:01 pm nliu—

      I am not a fan of book trailers, but this trailer did contain, like, words. If you didn’t like the words in the trailer you may not like the words in the book. I’m lukewarm.

  23. October 22nd, 2011 / 1:44 pm Ken Baumann—

      Dig it.

  24. October 23rd, 2011 / 2:09 am catheaven—

      muncie’s hip

  25. October 24th, 2011 / 4:38 am Landolakes—

      ill bet this book is RILLY GREAT

  26. October 25th, 2011 / 8:00 pm deadgod—

      library card trailer

      shoplifting trailer

      over-the-shoulder trailer

      three-in-/-one-out-at-the-used-book-store trailer

  27. October 26th, 2011 / 4:10 am Gimlit—

      “This book is dark and electric with all the immediate, physical anxiety of being female and, beyond that, human. It’s a totally fascinating downward spiral through sex and television and pills and blogging and love and alcohol, strangers and friends and despair, all knit together with tender emotional realness.”- Michelle Tea, author of VALENCIA