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Reason 90 from Miranda July

Obama expanded the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act to include leave for domestic violence and sexual assault.

http://90days90reasons.com/90.php

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I’m using this hometown show to try out a bunch of new things THAT MIGHT NOT WORK. Come be part of that! 

October 18th, LA.

http://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/event_de...

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I’m using this hometown show to try out a bunch of new things THAT MIGHT NOT WORK. Come be part of that! 

October 18th, LA.

http://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/event_de...

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Making-of-the-book video #5: Joe

"The visit was suffused with death. Real death: the graves of all those cats and dogs, the widows he shopped for, and his own death, which he referred to more than once — but matter-of-factly, like it was a deadline that he was trying to get a lot of things done before. I sensed he'd been making his way through his to-do list for eighty-one years, and he was always behind, and this made everything urgent and bright, even now, especially now. How strange to cross paths with someone for the first time right before they were gone."

— From "It Chooses You", wherein I share with you the part of my life where I was interviewing people selling things through the Pennysaver classifieds as a sort of open-ended visionquest that I secretly hoped would help me finish my screenplay (The Future) and teach me how to be a better liver of a finite life. http://goo.gl/YHrZM

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Making-of-the-book video #4: Dina

"I felt like Miley Cyrus was speaking directly to me through Lenette, and she was being very clear — she wanted me to keep the faith. I read Dina's Popeye T-shirt, i yam what i yam, and I felt that I too was what I was. I was a writer, and my characters, Sophie and Jason, were right here with me. In fact, they were me, both of them. We thanked Dina and I said goodbye, knowing that it wasn't really goodbye. I wanted to wink at her or give her some kind of indication that she would soon be starring in a major motion picture, but I restrained myself."

— From "It Chooses You", wherein I share with you the part of my life where I was interviewing people selling things through the Pennysaver classifieds as a sort of open-ended visionquest that I secretly hoped would help me finish my screenplay (The Future) and teach me how to be a better liver of a finite life. http://goo.gl/YHrZM

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Making-of-the-book video #3: Ron

"Ron was exactly the kind of man you spend your whole life being careful not to end up in the apartment of. And since I was raised to go out of my way to make such men feel understood, I took extra-special care with his interview. But as he talked on and on (the original transcript was more than fifty pages), I realized that I don't actually want to understand this kind of man — I just want them to feel understood, because I fear what will happen if I am thought of as yet another person who doesn't believe them. I want to be the one they spare on the day of reckoning."

— From "It Chooses You", wherein I share with you the part of my life where I was interviewing people selling things through the Pennysaver classifieds as a sort of open-ended visionquest that I secretly hoped would help me finish my screenplay (The Future) and teach me how to be a better liver of a finite life. http://goo.gl/YHrZM

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Making-of-the-book video #2: Andrew

"Andrew turned out to be a seventeen-year-old with three ponds in his backyard. Teenage boys never really made sense to me, and I've pretty much avoided them since high school. But Andrew was the one kind of teenage boy I was familiar with: the sweet, curious loner. My brother had also built ponds in high school. Andrew's ponds were thick with water hyacinths and the special fish that eat mosquito eggs. Actual lily pads floated in the sun and the frogs seemed happy, as suburban frogs go. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating."

— From "It Chooses You", wherein I share with you the part of my life where I was interviewing people selling things through the Pennysaver classifieds as a sort of open-ended visionquest that I secretly hoped would help me finish my screenplay (The Future) and teach me how to be a better liver of a finite life. goo.gl/YHrZM

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The Future available on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand

on Nov. 29th! What's good about this is that it has 1) my first ever director's commentary and 2) a little short about the making of the movie including footage from the performance that the movie evolved out of. I think you will like that. I also feel the need to tell all 40,382 of you that I'm wearing an extraordinary amount of make-up in my interview in the making of. In fact this might be what Entertainment Weekly is referring to when they say "Extraordinary!" on the cover.

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In celebration of "It Chooses You", Miranda July and her team scoured the New York classifieds, buying up once-meaningful objects and interviewing the sellers. These items, ranging from a modest bottle cap collection to a massive work of art, will be resold for the original asking price (plus tax) at Miranda July's resale shop within Partners & Spade. Specially-designed packaging will offer insights into the lives behind the hundreds of unique objects, and the local sellers will be in attendance — as will Miranda July herself, signing copies of "It Chooses You". Joe Putterlik's obscene and tender homemade cards (described in the book) will also be on display.

http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm

/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/36

585a59-a7c1-4afa-8b77-b484a84985

aa/ItChoosesYou.cfm

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Montreal! First time ever for me. No more tickets for this but I know they are holding some that you can get by showing up early on the night of.

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What about this? Who is coming to this in Los Angeles?

November 29, ALOUD at the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA

in conversation with Joshuah Bearman

7 p.m., Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071

http://www.lfla.org/event-detail/673/...

Or what about the reading in Brooklyn? You going to that?

November 15, BookCourt

7 p.m., 163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY

http://www.bookcourt.org/category/eve...

And did you catch the last installment of It Chooses You on the New Yorker site? That's not the end of the book though, there's more.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs...

For you people who asked about an SF event…

Nov 30: City Arts and Lectures

http://www.cityarts.net/n.july.html