Miranda July has a new book of stories due out

Posted by Daniel Stout on Mon 9 Apr 2007 at 6:57 AM

So here’s my little Miranda July story. A couple of years ago, I had gone to the Kill Rock Stars website. KRS is an independent record label on the left coast. They had a sampling of MP3 files from their artists. I downloaded what I could. Okay, fast forward a few months. For some reason, when I was driving, a song would keep coming up on my iPod, which was plugged into the car stereo. It was called The Arky Girl. It stuck with me. It kept playing back in my head. The Arky Girl. The Arky Girl. Okay, that was the first piece of the puzzle.

And then, last year, my girlfriend mentioned this movie she had seen called Me and You and Everyone We Know. So we rented it (she didn’t mind seeing it again), and there was the voice from the Arky Girl song in the form of one Miranda July, who wrote and starred in this fine independent film.

Anyway, my interest was/is piqued by this haunting voice that came from the depths of my iPod. And once I saw the movie, I could put a name and a face with the voice. Um…so Miranda July has come at me in parts. But she’s an interesting girl and performance artist, and I recently saw a link on Waxy.org to Miranda’s website for her new book. It’s called No one belongs here more than you. The website is like a PowerPoint for the DIY crowd. Nicely done!

Okay, so here’s the book at Amazon. It’s apparently due out next month. No word on which (of 2) colored cover Amazon is shipping.

Tags: book · diy · miranda july · no one belongs here more than you · performance art

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