no one belongs here more than you
posted by amy at
10:11 AM
4.04.2007
Selected Scribblings
- The Kidnapped, on brink magazine
- Arlen's Arm, on sub-lit
- Three Poems, on la fovea
- I See Dead People: Great Moments in Corpse-Peeping, on topic
- The News from Guthrie, Oklahoma, on elimae
- The Blind Photographing the Blind, on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
- The Terrors of Tinytown, on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
- The Woman Who Expected, on Hobart
- The Burt Smithsons, on Nidus
- A bunch of things, on Yankee Pot Roast
- This is a What, on Locus Novus
- The Optometrist, on Gut Cult
- Once We Had Hundreds of Chairs, on Gut Cult
- Luck: The Election, on Mississippi Review
- Rain Taxi: Human Oddities, Noria Jablonski (Spring 2006, print only)
- Modern Painters: American Genius, Lynne Tillman (Nov 2006, print only)
- iVillage: The First Hurt, Rachel Sherman; Sweet Ruin, Cathy Hanauer; Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl; The Keep, Jennifer Egan; The Brambles, Eliza Minot; All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones (Fall 2006)
- Bookslut: Hotel Theory, Wayne Koestenbaum (June 2007)
- Guest-bloggery
- Bookslut: The Wise Virgins, Leonard Woolf (November 2007)
- Monthly at The Nervous Breakdown
- walt and skeezix take a trip
- body shots
- off to see the wizard
- walt and skeezix save the day
- tumbling lessons
- instant unlove
- highland park's fifteen seconds
- instant love
- lookit
- a new attitude
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9 Comments:
I love it!
I think for your book site you should write everything on Miranda July's ass, but through her jeans. Then she could take a video of you doing that and the voice over could be by Dave Eggers and as he talked, words her used could appear on the screen and those would be links to other things about the book. When you clicked on those links, your book would automatically be ordered, then you could sit back, feel the money roll in and look at MJ's jeans for ever and ever.
I am only kind of kidding.
done and done.
yessss!
I think that I will be stealing your link this week for my blog, with credit, of course. Thanks for the heads up!
I'd never heard of Miranda July--whose name sounds like a product of one of those deals where you pick your favorite Shakespeare character and then your favorite month--until I read this pots and then last night I was reading Best Nonrequired Reading 2006 and she was in that. She seems awesome, though.
yrs,
Falstaff September
Her story in the winter Zoetrope was enjoyable, something I cannot say about her recent story in Harper's. I know ambulette liked "Swim Team," but I was disappointed that the story did not move on from its goofy premise. The Zoetrope story, "How to Tell Stories to Children," was able to find its way into describing a strange relationship between an adult woman and a young girl. Perhaps one of the reasons I liked it is that I can't explain any more about it in a way that is not trivial.
Having read two pieces of her fiction and seen her movie, I get the sense that July could rattle off stories with a particular sensibility very quickly. I hope she is picky about which ideas she develops. She's at her best when she creates this feeling that the events are just about become horrific, but they never actually do. You get ready to read about or see child abuse or the complete degradation of her characters, but July does not take the story there. So far as I know.
I can see how her stories could quickly become derivative of her own style.
All of which is to say, Edgar October.
ooh, edgar october, i know just what you mean. as much as i love miranda july, she is always very extremely miranda july, but i can never tell if i think that because i am jealous of her "particular sensibility" as you put it, which i really love, or because she legitimately gets a little too one-noted, or maybe that is exactly what i like about her.
or something,
cordelia march
I was just about to send this link to you, and then I thought, Let me check her blog; she's probably already written about it.
I like the Web 0.8ness of it -- it's like something Carl Steadman would have done around 1995 and blown our minds because we hadn't thought of it first -- but I hate the idea that the website probably won't ever change. Like even at 30 screens, once you go through it, you're pretty much done; it's both a missed opportunity and a waste of a URL (I know it's dumb to think in terms of wasting URLs, but I can't change my head).
Anyway, compared to some other, more interactive and almost beautiful sites, which promised more than the book could deliver, this one probably hits it right. I think kottke nailed it: this is the perfect litmus test for the reader. If you like the site, you'll probably like the book (and if you like it a lot but wish there could be a little more to it, then...)
In conclusion, Mercutio October (Edgar's twin brother from which will probably arise some kind of confused identity deal, but it's OK because everyone gets married in the end).
Sometimes thing look better when you look at them differently. Here:maybe this book is not a masterpiece, but certainly it is worth a read or two even if you’re not really reading but only looking at your hands…i really don’t think Miranda July would mind.
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