Thumbsucker

We watched this movie the other night, based on Walter Kirn’s book, and liked it a lot. It’s basically the story of a family, and apparently the book is largely autobiographical – there’s a great, long interview with Kirn (who also writes for the Times magazine) on the DVD that was good food for writing thought. Also he said he got like seventeen rejections for the book, which I always like to hear. Which is not to say I wish that on anyone, only that there’s always hope.