Maybe it's the absence of visuals. Maybe it's that both parties involved feel rushed. Maybe it's just that you can only sustain the quirk for so long before you body starts to resist and you have to speak in complete sentences and those sentences prove to be sort of uninteresting. Whatever the reason, this interview with Miranda July on the Believer online site (an online exclusive, no less!) is exceptionally unexceptional.
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August 19, 2007
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