Astounding Transformations

Miranda July (De)Mystifies Button Making


If you haven't been exposed to Miranda July's trademark brand of creepster whimsy, you should get on it. I just started her collection of short stories and it makes me actually chuckle aloud on public transportation in a particularly satisfying and unsettling way that makes me feel like a sex offender. Maybe I just feel like a sex offender because my favorite story so far is about a middle-aged woman's lurid anilingus fantasies about Prince William.

I think searching Merriam-Webster.com just now for the spelling of anilingus was a professional mistake. Realization, 3:57 P.M.: Why are both my posts so far about assholes? This is an unexpected and alarming pattern.