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Miranda July: hip and happening
Miranda July: hip and happening

You’ll pick up few more unusual novels this year than this debut from Miranda July, an American artist, film-maker and short-story writer whose work has been published in the Paris Review, Harper’s and the New Yorker. The book makes it to print with glowing accolades from the usual suspects in the lit-hipster world: Lena Dunham, Chris Ware and Dave Eggers have all supplied July with endorsements. (Dunham says: “Never has ...