![]() In 2011, she released her second movie, "The Future" (narrated, in part, by a cat), along with a spinoff nonfiction book called It Chooses You, about the personal lives of people she found through the PennySaver when she was procrastinating instead of finishing her screenplay. In addition to fiction and films, July’s work spans performance art, video, and Web-inspired projects. I had never encountered this artistic sensibility before, save for a wonderfully peculiar film called "Me and You and Everyone We Know." It turns out she made that one, too. July’s stories turned out to be transgressive and funny, uncomfortably sexual and wise, dangerous and tender - the perfect antidote to my emotional burnout. On one such outing I discovered Miranda July’s book of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You. ![]() During much-needed breaks, I would walk up and down the dingy aisles of the local drugstore in an effort to calm myself from the vicarious trauma wrought by my line of work. ![]()
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