THE CINEMANIA OF EMILY SCHULTZ

Going screen to novel in her new book Sleeping With Friends

Emily Schultz and I would love it if our day job was endlessly snarking on films from a couch. Unfortunately, we have respective careers as filmmaker and novelist. Emily’s new novel, Sleeping With Friends, is out this week from Thomas and Mercer. It’s the story of Mia, a woman who wakes up from a coma to discover the memories of films she’s watched are grafted onto her own memories. To solve the mystery of how she ended up in a coma, Mia and her friends will have to talk through her film memories over one weekend to discover what’s real and not. This is, of course, a great opportunity to host a Cinema Dirtbag session about the films Emily references, which ones she used to deepen the mystery, and her personal favorites.  —Brian J Davis