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May 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Kajillionaire: DVD

Kajillionaire Director: Miranda July Plan B Pictures / Focus Films Across books and movies – and various performance-art pieces, her one-woman shows and talks – Miranda July has built a worldview through using the lens of empathy to consider the largely unimaginable, the downright quirky, the weird and profoundly wonderful; there’s a darker edge in […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Debra Winger, DVD, DVD Review, Evan Rachel Wood, Film, Film Review, Gina Rodriguez, It Chooses You, Kajillionaire, Kajillionaire: DVD, Miranda July, Movie, Movie Review, Richard Jenkins, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 246 – Miranda July, Wellington, 2016

When I rented Me And You And Everyone We Know back in 2005 I had no idea who Miranda July was – I was just renting a quirky indie film. But the writer, director and star of the film made an impression and a couple of years later I was buying her book of short […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), Artist, Books, Festival, Film, Gig, Gig Review, Miranda July, NZ Festival, Q&A, Readers, Stubs, Stubs: # 246, Stubs: # 246 – Miranda July, Talk, Wellington, Writers ·

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October 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Roxane Gay: Difficult Women

Difficult Women Roxane Gay Grove Press Roxane Gay is working on a graphic novel, has released a striking, stunning memoir and there’s also this volume of short stories. A busy year. Yet another. All on the back of being a public intellectual with a mega-popular book of essays and other, earlier fiction. There are speaking […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Angela Carter, Bad Feminist, Bob Dylan, Book, Book Review, Difficult Women, Grove Press, Hunger, Hunger: A Memoir, Memoir, Miranda July, Neil LaBute, Roxane Gay, Roxane Gay: Difficult Women, Seconds of Pleasure, Short Stories ·

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July 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Nick Drnaso: Beverly

Beverly Nick Drnaso Drawn and Quarterly Drawn (mostly) in and around a set of boxes – this is American ennui, the suburban inertia, there’s no real desire to be better in these stories, no hope, no hype, but no coasting either – just people in the middle. Dreary, weird, detached lives with sexual repression barely […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adrian Tomine, Beverly, Book, Book Review, Cartoon, Comic, Drawn and Quarterly, Graphic, Graphic Novel, Killing and Dying: Stories, Miranda July, Nick Drnaso, Short Stories, Stories, Todd Solondz ·

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March 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers Week: Miranda July – Lost Child!

Miranda July: Lost Child! The Opera House Wednesday, March 9 When Miranda July was a young kid she wrote a book called Lost Child! She begins her Writers Week festival talk with slide-show images of the cover and reads a few pages from the book – she can’t read it all (“it was a trilogy”). […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Actor, Artist, Arts Festival, Author, Director, It Chooses You, Lecture, Lost Child!, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July, Miranda July: Lost Child!, No One Belongs Here More Than You, Novel, NZ Festival, NZ Festival Writers Week: Miranda July - Lost Child!, Opera House, Presentation, Short Stories, Show, Talk, The First Bad Man, Writer, Writing ·

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October 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

New Zealand Festival: 26 Feb-20 March 2016 (Wellington)

Wellington’s New Zealand Festival saw the launch of its 2016 line-up earlier tonight. Plenty of highlights, so be sure to check the link there for the details – Miranda July will perform a keynote that’s part-lecture/part-performance and will take the audience through her artist-career from struggling enthusiast to short-story writer, filmmaker and novelist. There’s events […]
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