I made this for truck drivers and the blind, but you might enjoy it too. I tried to read it in a way that would make it impossible for you to not get me.

The new MGMT album, Oracular Spectacular, is also pretty enjoyable.

Which is the better album, mine or theirs? Well, if we are judging by length, mine is 5 hours long, so mine wins - but we might not have been judging by length. If judged by yellowness, I also win. But if judging by number of young men in feathers and scarves on the cover, I lose. (Unless you think of the word “Unabridged” as a young man?) I also lose on danceability.

It’s a tie. Go to iTunes and get them both.

Also on view, work by: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Andrea Bowers, Nao Bustamante, Tammy Rae Carland, Vaginal Davis, Eve Fowler with Math Bass, Deborah Grant, MK Guth, Taraneh Hemami, LTTR, Leslie Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy, Aleksandra Mir, Laurel Nakadate, Shinique Smith, and more.

I’d like to think all the people who follow my work are radical, political firecrackers. But those of you who are don’t need any encouragement from me. Instead I will focus my efforts on the demographic who, like me in 1996, feels completely disconnected from life, nevermind their country. I’m hoping that there aren’t very many of you, in this day and age. You people are hard to encourage, because all the political arguments will mean nothing to you. I just spent the last hour typing up my case for Obama, but you won’t even read it, you’ll skip ahead to something that seems subtler or less cliche, I know you. (And those of you who will read it, who are perhaps torn between Obama and Clinton, are well tended to by better writers.) So nevermind all that.

Here’s why you should vote: you are going to really love it, the whole strange procedure. You get to walk right into a building that you would never normally be allowed in, often an elementary school. You can pause in the hallway to look at all the weird school-art and feel the eerie vibe of hundreds of kids living their endless kid lives right nearby. Then you follow the arrows to the voting room and look at the faces of the volunteers - who are these people? There is a hush of secrecy, the voting booth is clunky, the whole thing seems fake somehow. You consider filling in all the bubbles, like you did on the SATs. But you don’t. You vote. You walk back outside feeling like you just gave blood or something, lightheaded from citizenry. You are wearing a sticker that says “I Voted” and you wish you could continue to get stickers like this throughout the day: I Ate Dinner, I Went To Sleep, I Got Out Of Bed, I Went To Work.
But alas, it is just this one thing that we all do together, savor it.

I tried to find an easy link for you to locate your polling place, but the best thing to do is just type the name of your city + “where do I vote” into google. If you’re not registered, then you might not be able to vote in the primaries, but register right now so you can vote in November.

pps: non-american readers: sorry. for everything. we are working on it.

Les Éditions Flammarion et colette vous invitent à rencontrer Miranda July à l’occasion de la parution d’“Un bref instant de romantisme”, avec la participation d’Audrey Diwan, le 13 décembre de 18 h à 20 heures. Cocktail le 13 décembre 2007 de 18 h à 20 h chez colette 213, rue Saint-Honoré 75001 Paris
www.colette.fr
Réservations : Charlotte Ajame
01 40 51 33 85 - cajame@flammarion.fr

(Everyone else: this is just the same yellow book of stories that maybe you already have. But wouldn’t it be cool if i had written a whole new book? In French no less!)

Learning To Love You More
Curated by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher
Book Launch and Exhibition
October 6th - 26th

Opening Saturday, October 6th, 6-9pm

the journal Gallery
168 North 1st St.
Brooklyn, NY
11211

www.thejrnl.com
www.learningtoloveyoumore.com

Drawing by Cindy Rehm of Murfreesboro, Tennessee in response to Learning To Love You More assignment #18: Recreate a poster you had as a teenager.

The New Yorker Festival
Miranda July and A. M. Homes have a conversation about Deviants
Friday, October 5, 9:30 P.M.
Anthology Film Archives ($25)

And lots and lots of other writers talking about other things.

Tickets will go on sale at noon on September 15th through Ticketmaster.

(And if it’s sold out, remember that 10 percent of the seats to all events will be sold on October 5, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues).

MJ will sign books on Saturday, October 6 at 2pm at Festival Headquarters.

(above photo: Monnica Lewis, a fan of A.M. Homes)

First, Harrell and I studied every single one of the more than five thousand Learning To Love You More reports and selected the most bizarre, challenging, heartbreaking, hilarious ones. This process alone took about six months.

Then we worked with Brian Scott to design the book. Here’s me and Harrell trying to figure out what order to put the pages in. Eventually we got to the part where the book was printed. Brian went to Munich to oversee this.

Right now the books are on a boat, floating to America. Pretty soon the boat will dock. I’m a little fuzzy on the details after that, but the third- to-last step is when you click here and then the second-to-last step is when you get the book in the mail and open it up and read pages twelve and thirteen.

(Making THINGS is hard work, you have to move your arms and torso around, sometimes even your legs. But that’s what’s cool about making things, as opposed to making the words that represent them.)

(Thank you to these people for their vigorous and repeated movements.)

It’s not too late to subscribe, you have until October 26.