Miranda July

And so initially it was this club that I think is still there called Mary's. Mary's? And... In Portland. But then I've had these kind of lifelong problems with my eyes, and there was smoking in the bars back then. So I couldn't really handle the smoke. So that's why I moved to the peep shows, which is just like a box. You're not really sharing air with anyone.

And so initially it was this club that I think is still there called Mary's. Mary's? And... In Portland. But then I've had these kind of lifelong problems with my eyes, and there was smoking in the bars back then. So I couldn't really handle the smoke. So that's why I moved to the peep shows, which is just like a box. You're not really sharing air with anyone.

And so initially it was this club that I think is still there called Mary's. Mary's? And... In Portland. But then I've had these kind of lifelong problems with my eyes, and there was smoking in the bars back then. So I couldn't really handle the smoke. So that's why I moved to the peep shows, which is just like a box. You're not really sharing air with anyone.

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Yeah, I mean, my main goal was to make as, you know, much money. It still wasn't that much. But to make this amount of money in a short time so I could work on my, you know, what ended up being like my first book of short stories, my first feature film. You know, I needed the time was how I was thinking about it. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, my main goal was to make as, you know, much money. It still wasn't that much. But to make this amount of money in a short time so I could work on my, you know, what ended up being like my first book of short stories, my first feature film. You know, I needed the time was how I was thinking about it. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, my main goal was to make as, you know, much money. It still wasn't that much. But to make this amount of money in a short time so I could work on my, you know, what ended up being like my first book of short stories, my first feature film. You know, I needed the time was how I was thinking about it. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't recommend that job to my child or anyone else's child. But on the other hand, like most jobs at that age are not so great.

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't recommend that job to my child or anyone else's child. But on the other hand, like most jobs at that age are not so great.

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't recommend that job to my child or anyone else's child. But on the other hand, like most jobs at that age are not so great.

I mean, the things that make me most happy to read are like women who, while they were reading the book, felt kind of exposed. Like, oh no, this is like my whole inner life exposed here in this book. And, you know, I've had people tell me that like they were reading it on the plane and they felt like they...

I mean, the things that make me most happy to read are like women who, while they were reading the book, felt kind of exposed. Like, oh no, this is like my whole inner life exposed here in this book. And, you know, I've had people tell me that like they were reading it on the plane and they felt like they...

I mean, the things that make me most happy to read are like women who, while they were reading the book, felt kind of exposed. Like, oh no, this is like my whole inner life exposed here in this book. And, you know, I've had people tell me that like they were reading it on the plane and they felt like they...

at a certain point had to put it away not because of the sexual content but because like they were sitting next to their husband and it was all their all their true feelings that they weren't saying um and that's always kind of astonishing to me like oh writing can do that like i i um I get a lot of messages from older women who say like, oh, this all happened to me.

at a certain point had to put it away not because of the sexual content but because like they were sitting next to their husband and it was all their all their true feelings that they weren't saying um and that's always kind of astonishing to me like oh writing can do that like i i um I get a lot of messages from older women who say like, oh, this all happened to me.

at a certain point had to put it away not because of the sexual content but because like they were sitting next to their husband and it was all their all their true feelings that they weren't saying um and that's always kind of astonishing to me like oh writing can do that like i i um I get a lot of messages from older women who say like, oh, this all happened to me.

My all fours time was 20 years ago. But I'm stunned to realize that I wasn't alone. I thought I was uniquely crazy or irresponsible or something. And so they're just, it's like a reframing of their life to have the community from the book.

My all fours time was 20 years ago. But I'm stunned to realize that I wasn't alone. I thought I was uniquely crazy or irresponsible or something. And so they're just, it's like a reframing of their life to have the community from the book.