Reread

[moon_custafer]

Reread rushthatspeaks’ post from a few years back on Daniel Pinkwater, and the follow-up conversation on which of the odder things in his books various readers had subsequently discovered were real. TV Tropes calls this phenomenon “Aluminum Christmas Trees” and mentions Pinkwater’s work by name as containing many. An Aluminum Christmas Tree, as defined by Tv Tropes,  is not quite the same thing as the Tiffany Problem – it won’t necessarily strike the reader as an anachronism, just as a weird thing that’s clearly part of the fictional story they are reading; later they discover it’s one of the bits of the story that was based on reality.

 

 

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[sovay]

later they discover it’s one of the bits of the story that was based on reality.

As far as I can tell, all of the movies he name-checks in the Snark books are like that.

[moon_custafer]

Whereas AFAIK these are entirely made up by Roz Chast, but I actually would consider watching “a wacky, rollicking romp that takes place entirely within a lamp store.”
https://condenaststore.com/featured/don-tudges-positive-movie-reviews-roz-chast.html

[kore]

I read Lizard Music as a kid and since I was dependent on a rural public library and there was no internet, couldn't get my hands on much else by him at the time, but I remember loving that book. And he slips you so quietly into the mindset that this could happen, it could be real, but not in a disorienting or "god my real life sucks I want to go back through the portal" way.