July Comes In May This Year

Miranda July, that is. Our favorite performance-artist director has a new book out this week! It's called All Fours and you can buy it at this link -- it's about  a middle-aged female artist leaving her husband and child behind to go on an adventure of possibly sexual dimensions, and if it's not auto-biographical it sure sounds auto-fantastical to me. (July is married to the also brilliant director Mike Mills, and has a kid with him). And since most of her work has to date refracted deeply personal shit through her one-of-a-kind lens I imagine this is no different. But who cares how "real" it all is, when she turns everything into magic? It's been four years since her truly lovely and one-of-a-kind movie Kajillionaire came out and we're thirsty for her particular flavor of wonderment. This book can't stuff itself into my mailbox quick enough.