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Miranda July (2020)
11/17/23


Notes:Got this for Christmas in 2020. Read it front to cover nearly immediately. Part of me got really upset because it felt like she’d accomplished everything I had inside my head for myself. I remember sitting with the book opened to Things We Don’t Understand and Definitely Are Not Going to Talk About with my journal opened next to it in a state of dread-panic and inspiration-- I’d written about an idea to cast audience members in a play as a narrative performance experience weeks earlier and here Miranda was, had already DONE THAT over a decade earlier. 

Miranda’s fearlessness is ultimately my biggest inspiration, something I hope to incorporate into my own often-fearful, tentative about embarassment habits when it comes to developing work. 


Some of my favorite projects mentioned in this book: 

- The Lifers, a play about Miranda’s highschool correspondances with an incarcerated man that she developed and staged when she was just 16. 

- 10 Million Hours a Mile, an audio narrative project (which you can find on spotify!!!) that’s part punk spoken word, part soundscape, part theater. 

- Things We Don’t Understand and Definitely Are Not Going to Talk About, the play where Miranda cast audience members and fed them lines throughout the performance. Just an epic concept I wish I could have seen live. 




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