All Fours

Miranda July

Riverhead Books

A strange and lovely story about an agoraphobe's encounter with a young boy. Miranda July is a filmmaker, performance artist, writer and multi-media tour-de-force. Read this and you'll understand why Miranda July is intriguing in any genre.

The Boy from Lam Kien

Cloverfield Press

Afterzine is a biannual arts and culture zine, curated by Hamish Robertson, featuring a collection of invited works upon dictated themes. What began as a single-section issue with invited interpretations of coincidence by chance evolved into an exploration of the city of Los Angeles a place I had mistakenly assumed to be lacking in happy accidents. Hamish Robertson Issue 2 includes interviews with Miranda July, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mike Mills, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, and Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. Singer-songwriter and actress Zooey Deschanel describes her favorite morning records with illustrations by Natalia Stuyk. Poetry by Emma Straub. Fiction by The Paris Review s Sadie Stein, essays by Christina Gregory, Diane Birch, Thessaly La Force, and Christy Harrison. Plus, LA-based friends of Afterzine contribute their coincidental guides to Los Angeles.

Afterzine, Issue 2

Mike Mills

Sophia Rossi

Hamish Robertson

Andi Teran

Zooey Deschanel

Ashley Avignone

E. A. Hanks

Laura Havlin

Catherine Ireton

Diane Birch

Kitty

Daisy & Lewis

Thessaly La Force

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Pamela Ribon

Emma-Straub

Brown Griffin, LLC

Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.Excerpts:David Mizner Your Swim Daisy's eating with Jonathan's two girls, using the cooler as a table, and even Sammy joins. Jo laughs at something Frances said. Our families are falling in love. Miranda July Interview by David Naimon I thought it would be the hardest thing I'd ever done, because everyone says that and people are always not finishing their novels. It is hard, but it's a certain kind of hard that is comfortable for me. It's all on me. It's all an internal, private process. Zain Saeed The Earth Is a Stingy Bastard He said something back about him having a name, bitch, and about this not being funny, gaandu, and other things I did not understand because he switched to Memoni as he had a tendency to do when he was properly mad, like, bad mad. Stefanie Freele Everything But What We Need The cycle interrupted itself, began, and washed his dishes again. And again, and again, and again, and again, and again. For approximately seven weeks, the now-broken dishwasher washed that same blue-glass lasagna pan over and over. Ezekiel N. Finkelstein Clayton and the Apocalypse: Scenes from an Earlier Life When he jumped it felt like forever, at the same time like no time immediately he was the soberest he had ever been he was surprised. He realized he'd made a mistake: he was falling. He'd always thought of it as jumping. Taiyaba Husain How You Respond to an Emergency It comes as a surprise to you both when your father steps in to parent you. He is late but not too late. Jeffrey Rotter In a Lake House She had so many interesting things to say about plumbing and celery fiber, subjects about which I know next to nothing. New ideas energize me. Gabe Herron Suzette There's some kind of magic that happens in places like that, where fathers and sons take their rests together after the work. Their arms made heavy and dumb by it, but their minds made clear and calm. Lara Markstein The American When I was eighteen, I lived in a small shared flat with an American and a German on an alley off Nguyen Thi Minh Khai in Saigon. Anthony DeCasper Redshift I've gone from near death to cancer remission, to cancer with a re-mission of death twice before. I just don't have any fuel left in my reserves for this next battle. S.P. MacIntyre Pinch I consider myself a pretty unflappable guy, but with my heart batting against the inside of my chest like a moth in a killing jar and the cocaine giving everything a furious urgency, I'm surprised that the only thing I could muster was, "What are you doing?" Theodora ZiolkowskiWe Thank You for Your Cleanliness So I'm baking cookies for Josh and his friend Kyle when it starts ringing, and think it must be Aunt Louise or a telemarketer, because only Aunt Louise and telemarketers have this number. Perri KlassHeart Attack on a PlateGood night, they say, each in turn, and tonight she says back, each time, heartbreakingly obedient, Good night, good night, good night. Caleb Leisure Atlantic on SundayAnd how were they supposed to behave? There was no loudspeaker instruction or police ordinance or Hollywood blueprint to follow. No established etiquette. There was only the ancient instruction of impulse.

Glimmer Train Stories, #98

Perri Klass

David Mizner

Zain Saeed

Ezekiel N. Finkelstein

Taiyaba Husain

Jeffrey Rotter

Gabe Herron

Lara Markstein

Anthony DeCasper

S.P. MacIntyre

Theodora Ziolkowski

Caleb Leisure

Stefanie Freele

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

The First Bad Man

CANONGATE BOOKS *

<p>This is The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. A Guardian literary highlight for 2015. A Huffington Post 'One to Watch' in 2015. "Astounding." (Lena Dunham, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl). "The First Bad Man brings together all of July's talents - it's a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased - in duplicate - one for you, one for a friend. Don't think you can loan this book - you'll never get it back." (A M Homes, author of This Book Will Save Your Life and May We Be Forgiven). The first novel by the filmmaker, artist and bestselling author Miranda July confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic, and important voice today, and a writer for all time. The First Bad Man is dazzling and unforgettable.</p>

Canongate Books Ltd.

ALL FOURS (EXP/AIR/IRE)

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Edinburgh, Scotland: Canongate

<p>Throughout her career, Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been interested in the derailed and deviant sides of human nature, noticeable both in her selection of subject matter (fairytales, disasters, sex, horror, and surrealism) and in her disquieting interpretations of well-established photographic genres, such as film stills, fashion photography, and society portraiture. This richly illustrated publication seeks to highlight and acknowledge these aspects of her work based on selected examples and accompanied by texts by well-known authors, filmmakers, and artists who likewise deal with the grotesque, the uncanny, and the extraordinary in their artistic practice.(English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3487-5) Exhibition schedule: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst Oslo, May 4–September 8, 2013 | Moderna Museet, Stockholm, October 19, 2013 | Kunsthaus Zürich, June 2014</p>

Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors

Sjón

Kathy Acker

Karl Ove Knausgård

Sara Stridsberg

Sibylle Berg

Lars Norén

Arts & Photography

Hatje Cantz Verlag

In The First Bad Man, Miranda July tells the story of Cheryl, a vulnerable, uptight woman in her early forties who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat, unable to cry. Cheryl is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six; she also believes she has a profound connection with Phillip, a philandering board member at Open Palm, the women's self-defense studio where she has worked for twenty years. When Cheryl's bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter Clee can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee - the selfish, cruel blond bombshell - who teaches Cheryl what it means to love and be loved and, inadvertently, provides the solace of a lifetime.

The First Bad Man (Chinese Edition)

Guangxi Normal University Press

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