![]() Pessl’s fictional mash-up of Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and David Lynch hasn’t been seen in public for 30 years. Movie rights are already spoken for by Chernin Entertainment, the studio behind “Oblivion” and “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” and critics are raving about Pessl’s multimedia storytelling approach, which takes readers beyond the novel’s pages to explore the story of a mysterious director and the washed-up reporter out to expose him. Seven years later, “Night Film” is hitting bookstores this week amid greater expectations and even more hype. But the book lived up to expectations, selling some 200,000 copies and landing on The New York Times’ list of Best Books of 2006. Pessl burst onto the scene in 2006 with “Special Topics in Calamity Physics.” She received a six-figure advance, almost unheard of for a first-time author, a ton of hype and even some snarky backlash over her photogenic looks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who is Stanislas Cordova? That’s the burning question at the heart of “Night Film,” the anticipated follow-up to best-selling author Marisha Pessl’s 2006 literary debut. ![]()
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