Miranda July and Lindsay Beamish Discuss ‘No One Belongs Here More Than You’
Miranda July’s bright yellow collection of short stories is still sitting, unread, on my shelf. I was on the fence about the one story that I read in the New Yorker or wherever, but I have the feeling that there may be a warming-up-to-it curve. In any case, the ‘Learning To Love You More‘ website and project was a big inspiration for 400 Words. Right now, I’m researching the intersections of books with online video. I ran across this video on Powell’s Books’ YouTube page, and it made me giggle out loud.
In other affectively-stirring media news, last night I downloaded the “Who Do You Think You Are, Anyway?” episode of This American Life, where they do a tribute to Studs Terkel by playing some interviews he did during the ’70s (I think—I was making cooking noises during the part where Ira Glass was explaning all that) with people who had lived through the Great Depression, about their experiences. The whole show’s amazing; the woman from Kentucky made me cry, a lot, and the whole thing made me do something that I occasionally want to do, but usually don’t because I didn’t grow up that way and it feels silly, and that’s say grace to myself before eating. It’s easy to get to feeling like a have-not in New York City, even when you patently aren’t. I love how a well-told personal story can snap things into perspective.
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