If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your favorite novels, well, us too. But wonder no more! Here, we sneak a look at the hypothetical iPods of some of literature’s most interesting characters. What would be on the personal playlists of Holden Caulfield or Elizabeth Bennett, Huck Finn or Harry Potter, Tintin or Humbert Humbert? Something revealing, we bet. Or at least something danceable. Read on for a cozy reading soundtrack, character study, or yet another way to emulate your favorite literary hero. This week: Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s ink and paper representation of the quintessential American dream — with a dark side.
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New York-based Ry Russo-Young is no newbie to the indie film scene. After graduating from Oberlin in 2003, she made a super 8 short called Marion that deconstructed Psycho; it earned critical buzz at Tribeca and SXSW, which led to her debut feature film, Orphans. In 2007 Ry appeared in Joe Swanberg’s mumblecore masterpiece Hannah Takes the Stairs, and even more recently she worked on artist Doug Aitken’s large-scale film installation at the MoMA, Sleepwalkers.
Ry’s second feature film You Won’t Miss Me — which she describes as “a kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital” — will screen at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Watch the trailer here, and find our IM interview with her after the jump.
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