Miranda July discusses All Fours

Note: this is a conversation only. All attendees will receive a signed copy of the new paperback edition upon arrival but there will be no signing line/meet and greet following the show.

An irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life

A semifamous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.

About the author

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her books include It Chooses You, The First Bad Man, and No One Belongs Here More Than You (winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award). July’s fiction has been published in twenty-three countries and has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker. She wrote, directed, and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know (winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance; re-released by The Criterion Collection in 2020). Her most recent movie is Kajillionaire (2020). July’s art works include the participatory website Learning to Love You More (with Harrell Fletcher; now in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), Eleven Heavy Things (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale), the performance New Society (Brooklyn Academy of Music and other venues), the messaging app Somebody, and an interfaith secondhand shop located in a luxury department store (presented by Artangel). In March 2024 July’s first solo show was presented at Fondazione Prada Osservatorio in Milan, curated by Mia Locks; the show included past work in all mediums and a new participatory video series, F.A.M.I.L.Y. (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You). Her newest novel, All Fours, was published May 14 2024 by Riverhead Books. It is a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction. Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles.

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