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4) Slipstream
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Hired to rewrite a film, an aging screenwriter finds the lines between reality and imagination blurring as characters from his script (and others) hop off the page and into his life.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
To inspire kids of all ages, real-life friends Jamie Lee Curtis and Barney Saltzberg share their fun, funny and imaginative creations, encouraging readers to find their own unique perspectives lurking in everyday items.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, meta-fictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too--even as it holds us in its thrall.
8) Emma's rug
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
A young artist finds that her creativity comes from within when the rug that she had always relied upon for inspiration is destroyed.
10) Martyr!
Author
Language
English
Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. The film finished the circle of the journey begun in Blood of a Poet, exploring the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A talented 16-year-old artist slowly discovers the history of domestic violence behind why her brother left the family years earlier and why she suddenly cannot make art"--
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. Peter Winceworth is a lexicographer in Victorian-era London, toiling away at the letter 'S' for a multi-volume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Secretly, he begins to insert unauthorized fictitious entries into the dictionary in an attempt to assert some artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory is a young...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
"Finn is awakened in the night by something rustling around inside their head. It isn't heavy like a worry, it doesn't swirl like a fear, and it certainly isn't shaped like a question. It's something much more exciting--an idea! Finn can't wait to share it, and they do, at school, with their best friend Sima. Sharing energizes the idea. Then the more Finn thinks about it, the more the idea grows, and by the end of the day the idea is huge and amazing....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Birdie usually has no problem creating masterpieces. But today is different: Her perfect story just won't manifest itself. But no fear, the Storytellers are here!...[A] young child's pens, pencils, and markers are for more than just jotting down ideas. They inspire and spark wonder." --publisher's website