Summary
No one belongs here more than you and Learning to Love You More, co-author Harrell Fletcher (Prestel)
Miranda July's film Me and You and Everyone We Know
captured the mood of a generation –- and its attention. In this first
book of stories, we find the same fear of paralysis, the same
narcotized, sleepwalker affect. Why does Miranda July, a tireless
whirlwind, identify with these listless characters?
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:07.1 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.0 | You are a very special breed, |
| 0:15.0 | or you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.3 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:22.2 | From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:27.0 | Today I'm very happy to have as my guest, Miranda July. |
| 0:31.0 | She's written a book of short stories published by Scribner called No One Belongs Here More |
| 0:36.2 | Than You. |
| 0:37.2 | She has been a performing artist, which I think is distinct from performance artists. |
| 0:43.4 | It is, yeah. |
| 0:44.2 | Would you make the distinction? |
| 0:45.9 | Well, it's so hard to find the right word, and I feel like when people hear a performance artist, |
| 0:51.7 | they picture something really specific that's maybe less scripted and rehearsed |
| 0:56.8 | and sort of playlike. But and yet I am performing, and so I have to get that word in there. |
| 1:04.0 | So, you know, no one ever sticks to that. They just, they end up saying performance artist, |
| 1:10.1 | but I always write performing artist. In just, they end up saying performance artist, but I always write |
| 1:11.0 | performing artist. In addition, she has written and directed and appeared in the movie |
| 1:17.8 | me and you and everyone we know. The book of stories, no one belongs here more than you, is a |
| 1:24.8 | collection of stories that has appeared in, among other places, McSweeney's |
| 1:29.1 | and the New Yorker and Harpers and the Paris Review and Tin House. And, you know, usually a first |
| 1:36.7 | collection I don't have on the show because it usually takes two or three books for a writer |
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