The Crossed-Out Notebook

A Novel

Nicolás Giacobone, Megan McDowell

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781501198748
• eBook ISBN: 9781501198762
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

From the Academy Award-winning cowriter of Birdman, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of Misery and Kiss of the Spiderwoman about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece. Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before. The Crossed-Out Notebook is Pablo's diary of this time: being brought food by a maid; being threatened with a gun; vociferously arguing with the director about what he's written the previous day.The clash between the two men and their different approaches leads to a movie being made, a gun going off, an unlikely escape, and a final confrontation. In the end, The Crossed-Out Notebook is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the essence of the creative process; a short, crazy ode to any artist whose brilliance shines through strangeness and adversity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Crossed-Out Notebook
• Encrypted Word File
• Unencrypted Word File
• Un-Crossed-Out Notebook
• Final Draft File
• Movie Program
• Yellow Sticky Note
• Reading Group Guide
• About the Author
• Copyright