Miranda July

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Miranda July recommended Working in Books (curated)

 
Working
Working
Studs Terkel | 1972 | Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
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"There’s no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is. This is the kind of thing I want to read all day long, on every aspect of life (and there’s more, Terkel collected oral histories on race, the great depression, movies and plays, etc.)"

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Miranda July recommended The Address Book in Books (curated)

 
The Address Book
The Address Book
Sophie Calle | 2012 | Art, Photography & Fashion, History & Politics
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"Sophie Calle taught me that art isn’t this thing apart from your life, your embarrassing life as woman, girlfriend, person who longed — all that could be art if you were smart and elegant enough to notice what makes something interesting."

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account In Words and Pictures
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account In Words and Pictures
Phoebe Gloeckner | 2015 | Comics & Graphic Novels, Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
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"I was in a unique position to be influenced by this book because my parents published it when I was in my twenties (long before Marielle Heller made it into a great movie). It is the most graphic of all the graphic novels I own — and all from the point of view of a teenage girl."

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Tattered Cloak & Other Stories
Tattered Cloak & Other Stories
Nina Berberova | 2001 | Fiction & Poetry
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"I don’t even know how I came across this book, but I read the title story every few years and just feel SO SAD. I thought my life would slip right through my fingers as it did for this narrator, and though it hasn’t…it also has. Super Russian."

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Miranda July recommended Birds of America in Books (curated)

 
Birds of America
Birds of America
Lorrie Moore | 2010 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrong-headed. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed in to."

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Rich and Poor: Photographs of Jim Goldberg
Rich and Poor: Photographs of Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg | 2014 | Art, Photography & Fashion
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"The format of this book is part of what makes it so great — that the subjects, very rich people and very poor people, got to see Goldberg’s portrait and write a sentence upon looking at themselves. It’s easy to objectify a subject — but also really easy to simply invite them to speak."

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Miranda July recommended Tenth of December in Books (curated)

 
Tenth of December
Tenth of December
George Saunders | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
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"There is something George Saunders said in an interview that I re-read many times while writing my novel. It’s too long for here but basically: characters don’t have to be articulate to be full human beings. He does this so well and I plan on doing it well"

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Miranda July recommended Photography & Film in Books (curated)

 
Photography & Film
Photography & Film
Friedl Kubelka Vom Groller | 2012 | Art, Photography & Fashion
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"I got this book a couple years ago and since then two people have bought it for me — and they are right to! The very specific, imperfect femininity — the sense of one woman’s struggle to make art — that’s my bailiwick."

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