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Kerri's book pick this week is "Night Film" by Marisha Pessl.

She's reading it at the urging of Stephanie Curtis, who said on the show that "if you love movies, this is a great novel about the love of movies and the power of movies and how creepy movies can be if they stick with you."

Stephanie said the book is about the search for a legendary director of horror movies. Part of what makes the book so compelling, she said, is the depth and detail of the world the author has created: "You feel like she has written the entire screenplays of these movies in her head already." 

Kerri pointed out that the novel has come under some criticism for its use of gimmicks, like fictional reprinted texts and other materials.  Stephanie said the device "really makes the world come to life."

Stephanie also recommended a book she's been reading, 

 by Craig Brown. It recounts surprising one-on-one encounters between famous people, like Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot or Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky.

'Night Film' is Kerri's book pick

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