Read Frank Ocean's Very Vibey Take on Moonlight Here
An A24 movie is never just a movie—it also becomes a great line of merch, a zine, and a handful of other things that a less-cool company might call “experiences.” So in addition to bringing us, in this year alone, features including The Souvenir, Midsommar, Uncut Gems, and The Lighthouse, plus the television show Euphoria, A24 is now also making hardcover books, with essays, interviews, and fiction from some of your favorite writers on the themes, impact, and visuals of their films. You know the old joke about just waiting for the movie to come out instead of reading the book? Now, you can also wait for the book that comes after the movie. Quoth the press release: “At a moment when art and entertainment feel more ephemeral than ever—when your favorite films vanish unceremoniously from the streaming sites and college DVD collections gather dust on the shelves—A24 Books are designed to be collected and displayed.”
The first three editions, on sale today for $60 each, comprise three of A24’s most celebrated releases and are packed with writing that adds context to any streaming experience. Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s 2014 robot-romance dystopia, gets essays by cognitive robotics scholar Murray Shanahan and gender and sexuality professor Jack Halbertstam. The Witch, Robert Eggers’s 2015 Purtitan psycho-drama, receives and edition with short fiction by 2019 Guggenheim fellow and multiple award winning witchy writer extraordinaire Carmen Maria Machado. And Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ 2016 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, is blessed with an essay by Hilton Als and a foreword by none other than Frank Ocean—which you can read below.
A press release calls the books “gorgeous and substantial.” Like the movie version of your favorite book, they are worth waiting for.
Originally Appeared on GQ
