Movieland Paperback – 17 Jan. 2022

One might initially assume Senor Serna was an intellectual who loathed "the pictures" ...until you realize only the most hopelessly devoted movie buff and Hollywood gossip junkie would possess the insight and motivation to rip every last trope of La La Land to shreds. Far more a Robinson Jeffers-ish epic poem than a novel, the dreamy, mercurial MOVIELAND is best consumed in quick daily nips over several weeks' time. Kind of prescient too: who else worried about television and predicted Virtual Reality back in 1928? Kudos to Tough Poets Press for unearthing another neglected L.A. takedown as stinging as their re-release of Myron Brinig's THE FLUTTER OF AN EYELID.