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“A love letter to movies, memory, and the fleeting magic of youth, Winnette’s writing drifts effortlessly between personal reflection and sharp-eyed film criticism. He’s deeply attuned to the nature of time, how it stretches and slips away, how even the smallest moments can hold the weight of an entire life.”
-Melissa Maerz, author of Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused
“A tender and obsessive minute-by-minute analysis of Dazed and Confused that takes Linklater’s film about not-entirely-feckless teenagers as seriously as it deserves. But, Colin Winnette does more than study the film. By folding in an anthropology of his own adolescence in small-town Texas, he shows how one beloved movie colors in the borders of growing up somewhere small — kids finding and making their own fun, slowly growing into who they’ll be next.”
–Esmé Weijun Wang, NY Times Bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias
“Like its subject, this astute, earnest analysis is continually in motion: oscillating among the perceptive synthesis of the (amateur) film scholar, the narrative acuity of the (seasoned) novelist, and the complex, often disarming nostalgia of the (lapsed) small-town Texan. A perfectly fruitful pairing of movie and mind.”
–Daniel Levin Becker, author of What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language and Many Subtle Channels
Forthcoming 12/10/2026
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