No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

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She was just making each puppet-character open and close their mouths while she did the talking (and it would be just like her to turn her short stories into a puppet show - that's just the quirky kind of thing she'd do). The creator and star of Me and You and Everyone We Know presents a collection of short works featuring profoundly sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnerable to unexpected events. One of the most acclaimed and successful short-story collections, No One Belongs Here More Than You confirms Miranda July as a spectacularly original, iconic and important voice today.

But if I'd decided I didn't like Miranda July, I wouldn't have, so if you don't wind up liking her reading these will be awful. She tells her off-beat and romantic or oddly sinister stories, dramatizes quirks as real characters and situations, and enchants you with her squeaky little voice. I actually bought this collection earlier, and in some ways I rather wish I had read it first, in that I found echoes of all the things that made me uncomfortable about that in some of these stories, and although I enjoyed some of them, the collection as a whole was not really to my taste. After that, she released two more full-length LPs, 10 Million Hours A Mile in 1997 and Binet-Simon Test in 1998, both released on Kill Rock Stars. July's characters are orphans and runaways and misfits, insecure, lost and lonely, but they do their best to find that last remaining scintilla of strength in each other and in themselves.that said i'm not here to bash the book of stories, i only got through three of them and that was enough for me. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s, and the New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction. Not a bad writing style - a bit dry for my tastes, but perfectly serviceable - but Oh God the content. It starts with some embroidered pillows that have different years on them with that phrase (whatever the actual wording is).

there is a difference between something sucking because it is a james patterson novel and it sucking because it is trying to be serious and original, but it's comedic and derivative. I think Miranda July has an incredible skill for observation- using often banal everyday observations to create uncanny, eccentric imagined worlds. This person wonders if there will ever be an Olympic contest for holding your breath under bathwater. Obviously the author is always a presence in some way, I mean, you're usually aware at least on some level that someone wrote what you're reading, and you notice their personality or whatever to varying degrees.I am now reconsidering how much I like my housemate, and will never rely on her for a character reference. He detached himself from the nipple, and we lay there in the half-darkness I have come to think of as our own. Sometimes I feel July is pretentious, other times I get excited that I'm not the only person in the world that is so god damned weird.



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