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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Miranda July

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Miranda July is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker. She's directed movies like Kajlillionaire and Me, You and Everyone We Know. She's designed apps and even recorded a spoken word album. She also just published her second novel, All Fours. In it, July covers marriage, middle age, and perimenopause. Miranda joins Bullseye to talk about her book, her career and the wild new soda flavor she helped make.

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Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR. It's bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne. A while back, the satirical website The Onion published an article. It was called

0:46.0

Miranda July called before Congress to explain exactly what her whole thing is.

0:52.0

Here's a little bit from it.

0:54.0

July, however, mostly ignored the probings

0:57.0

and proceeded to cut up pieces of construction paper

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to make a large banner reading,

1:02.0

You will find it, which she then hung from the front of the table

1:06.1

at which she was sitting. Of course it is the onion, it is silly, but the truth in there is that Miranda July's work always keeps you on your toes.

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In part because Miranda July doesn't just make one type of work.

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You probably know her best as a film director.

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She wrote and directed the movies The Future,

1:27.6

Kajillionaire, and her breakthrough, Me, You, and Everyone We Know.

1:32.1

What are you doing in my car?

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I don't know you and you certainly don't know anything about me.

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I mean, what if I'm a killer of children?

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Yeah, well, that would put a damper on things. killer of blonde Redhead. She's published Short Stories in the New Yorker. She's designed apps. She even recorded

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a spoken word album.

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But one, did you say the Arky Girl?

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