"High Art" So much for the Brat Pack -- Ally Sheedy throws off the mantle of "The Breakfast Club" and astounds as a heroin-chic lesbian photographer-in-hiding in this Sundance indie hit.
"House of Leaves," Mark Z. Danielewski Between a fictional documentary about a house that's larger inside than outside and the mental descent of narrator Johnny Truant, "House of Leaves" can drain a reader's sanity. It's the 700-page epitome of postmodern literature, and the novel prefers to leave one page blank while running words in backward columns on one page or inside of blue boxes on the next. For a truly disturbing experience, read the book while listening to Haunted by Poe, the author's sister.
Michelle Jarboe can be reached at mjarboe@email.unc.edu.
