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In another reality/fiction crossover, many noticed that Ivanka Trump’s inauguration outfit resembled Serena Joy’s tailored teal gowns.

Those questions aren’t answered in the film, but one presumes the offscreen negotiations with the prospective customers turned the filmmakers into salesmen themselves — and turned what they documented into a reality fiction.

I didn’t feel an emotional connection to Lovecraft the way LaValle did as a kid, but the apprentice writer in me was thrilled by his inventiveness and a certain voracity of the imagination that shaped everything — history, myth, superstition, reality, fiction, science, everything — to suit his vision.

Further blurring the reality/fiction divide, the scene around her on Thursday night could have come from a Washington-set novel: a swanky book party at CityCenter restaurant Centrolina packed with stylish A-listers sipping rosé and talking about their 2020 assignments.

There is something Tom Stoppard-esque about the era-hopping intermingling of reality, fiction and art.