daymare

It’s tantalizingly oddball and indelicate: a combined daymare and night odyssey that scratches until a feral hidden strength is revealed in the misfit main character, captivatingly played by Indian star Radhika Apte.

“Our long national nightmare and daymare is over,” he said.

“Daymare” was written in 1943 when Brown was mainly selling to the crime-story pulps — Haffner Press has reprinted much of this early work in “Murder Draws a Crowd” and “Death in the Dark” — but in 1947 he would finally bring out the first of his many novels, the Edgar Award-winning mystery “The Fabulous Clipjoint.”

“It was my escape from my daymare and nightmare unlifestyle which constantly dangled me by my feet over the precipice of insanity, and death, yet to some degree calmed my frightening anger, which if unleashed like we were paid to do in Vietnam, could or would take many lives before it took mine.”

Alexander Payne Opinions vary about this satirical fantasy from Alexander Payne, a sci-fi daymare about a world in which it is scientifically possible to reduce yourself to the size of a matchbox.