Looking through the catalogue of the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, my eye was caught by this trailer — a documentary about the artist Tomi Ungerer called Far Out Isn’t Far Enough. Top of my list of films I can’t wait to see. - Sheila Heti
Classic Believer contributor Kevin Moffett and the geniuses behind Sunset TV bring you the “longest, most depressing book trailer ever made”—for Moffett’s (excellent) new story collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events.
We’re jump-up-and-downingly proud to present the trailer for beagle enthusiast and Believer deputy editor Karolina Waclawiak’s How To Get Into The Twin Palms, directed by Dominika Waclawiak and with music by Jon DeRosa (you can actually download the song from the trailer for free here). The book will come out in July 2012 from the excellent Two Dollar Radio (who were once our booth neighbors at a publishing trade-show; we still feel embarrassed about being too shy to verbally express our love for them at the time, so, hey guys, we love you!), and it has already garnered some pretty hefty praise from the likes of Christine Schutt (for whom we’ve also experienced shyness with regard to expressing our love) and Gary Shteyngart (to whom we’ve never had the chance to be too shy to speak), and the trailer, in addition to being gorgeous, features a smoked mackerel, so it basically orders itself, but to be safe, you can pre-order it here.
—Andi Mudd
Believer editor Heidi Julavits, whom I swear under oath is not writing this about herself in the third person (I’m Andrew, former and current Believer editor; I live in Missouri with my wife and dog) has a superb (I think, I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I just got my copy yesterday, but by all accounts [Kirkus and Publishers Weekly and Jennifer Egan and God] it is awesome) new novel coming out March 13, called The Vanishers. The above is the partially safe-for-work, entirely lovely new book trailer for the novel, directed by Carlos Charlie Perez, who also made I MISS YOU, a short film commissioned for the 2011 Believer Art Issue’s paper planes project. It bears mentioning that Perez and Julavits met in a yurt.
