{"title":"Jana Larson","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"reel-bay-a-cinematic-essay","title":"Reel Bay: A Cinematic Essay","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNonfiction by Jana Larson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eJanuary 19, 2021 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 298 pages • 978-1-56689-598-9\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eEqual parts memoir, mystery, reclaimed screenplay, and travelogue, \u003cem\u003eReel Bay\u003c\/em\u003e charts Jana Larson’s unusual journey toward understanding another woman's life.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhat was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as some locals concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank in the Coen brothers’ film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFargo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e? Or was it something else that brought her there: unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor shower, a far-flung search for purpose? The seed of an obsession took root in struggling film student Jana Larson when she chanced upon a news bulletin about the case. Over the years and across continents, the material Jana gathered in her search for the real Takako outgrew multiple attempts at screenplays and became a remarkable, genre-bending essay that leans into the space between fact and fiction, life and death, author and subject, reality and delusion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJana Larson holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Hamline University, where she studied with Barrie Jean Borrich (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMy Lesbian Husband\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e), Patricia Weaver Francisco (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTelling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e), and Jim Moore (\u003ci\u003eLightning at Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e); an MFA in Filmmaking from the University of California, San Diego; and a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a filmmaker, she has received awards from the Princess Grace Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board and shown her work at festivals and the Walker Art Center. 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Larson captures both the fanaticism of creative fixation and the listlessness of artistic existential dread with clarity and empathy.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Lucy Shapiro, \u003cem\u003eThe Arkansas International\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A moving and powerful elegy about brave women who go in search of an unknown something. A story of obsessions, passions, and delusions. A splendidly melancholy book about the literature in filmmaking and the filmmaking in literature.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Jazmina Barrera\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have no idea what the hell this book is—in the best way—except that it’s obsessive and dazzling as it spawns and splits fictions and nonfictions. 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