![]() ![]() You can't make a movie that's in theaters and have it be totally experimental and without plot, for example. Certainly writing scripts teaches you a lot about what holds an audience's attention. (We can't say more without spoilers.)Ī: No, they definitely are all kind of intermingled. ![]() The relationship between the two women is rocky at first, but it's Clee who ends up steering Cheryl toward some good romantic karma. Eccentric and given to oddball theories about centurieslong romances, migrating souls - not to mention at times torrid sexual fantasies - Cheryl is challenged when her bosses, a married couple, ask if their 20-year-old blond bombshell of a daughter, Clee, can live with her. In "The First Bad Man" - which follows the short story collection "No One Belongs Here More Than You" (2007) - July introduces us to Cheryl Glickman, a woman who works at a women's self-defense nonprofit. She also is an experienced multimedia and performance artist, and this year created Somebody, an iOS messaging app. ![]() Not so with the multifaceted Miranda July, whose debut novel, "The First Bad Man," is just one more highlight of a career that includes two heralded independent films, "The Future" (2011) and "Me and You and Everyone We Know" (2005), both of which she wrote, directed and starred in. For most writers, publishing a first novel is a professional milestone unlikely to be matched by anything that came before. ![]()
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