Maybe That Is A Silly Idea That No Serious Writer Should Consider

April 20, 2007

Miranda July promos her upcoming short story collection, No One Belongs Here More Than You in typical July fashion with this lo-fi website. It is funny, unexpected and endearing. Alternately, you may find it precious and annoying, but you might also not have any joy in your heart.

I remember going to an interview with her and George Saunders at the Hammer Museum where she tried to absorb every thing Saunders told her. Saunders is a phenomenal short story writer and a creative writing professor at Syracuse, so not only is a fine storyteller, but he is adept at breaking down his process at explaining it to others. It’ll be interesting to see if any of that shows itself in July’s naturally offbeat and intuitively left-field storytelling.

If you’re interested in hearing Saunders and July talk about cultivating story ideas, creating expectations, earning epiphanies and sabotaging your inner-Hemingway, the whole conversation has been archived here, in convenient mp3 format.

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