Three minutes and 56 seconds of delightfully weird, seemingly random clips arrayed stream-of-consciousness-style, and directed by frontwoman Merrill Garbus herself:
History-laden thrillers, intellectual capers, a romantic heroine with a Ph.D, a murder mystery penned by a MacArthur Genius: This summer’s best books — many of which have local authors and settings — are equal parts brainy and beachy.