![]() ![]() Lost footage-style interruptions, with a distinctly strange cast. On the face of it, Universal Harvester is the story of what happens when a video store schlub discovers weird interruptions have been spliced into rental tapes. It’s a consideration of how history is made, and how those same records can be viewed differently in the light of a little information. John Darnielle’s second novel is a little bit of a love story to the period, while also managing to be a ghost story, a thriller, a tribute to the boredom and joy of a life lived small, as well as a meditation on movement by spirit. ![]() You know, the time before streaming services, when people had to rent videotapes, and what was known was limited by hard-copy research, or – more often than not – relied on hearsay and rumour, at least as far as local history was concerned. You know, there’s a lot to be said for the pre-Internet era. ![]()
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