Book review: The Last Days of Video

Reading The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins is likely to elicit nostalgia for a generation that trekked to the video rental store. And reminder of this lost ritual may compel some to embark on a fruitless search for the local Blockbuster, though some supermarkets still seem to offer these rentals.

The Last Days of Video is about a small movie rental store, Star Video, on the verge of going out of business in 2007. Star Video’s owner and devoted employees are colorful and quirky characters who bring this story to life each with their own neurosis and obvious love of film.  

Read my full review on New York Journal of Books.