A rollicking small town satire. Howell's genre-hopping debut finds an aspiring "screen memoirist", cafe bon vivant and Swedish B-film aficionado in a quagmire of betrayal, intrigue and comic misadventure as he pursues a lucrative antiquarian book caper (and the fetching demoiselle who threatens its success). At once a sexy, madcap kunstlerroman-gone-awry and indicting riff on a generation's malaise, The Late Projectionist takes a telepathic peek into the bizarre inner-lives of steamy baristas, self-mutilating poets, solvent-slugging actors and a movie theater projectionist whose agenda far surpasses what's on the marquee.