Dates and times: Thursday 13th June | 7:30pm – 8:45pm
Location: 25 Nicolson Sq. Edinburgh, EH8 9BX
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Accessibility: Our venue is wheelchair accessible
The Portobello Bookshop is thrilled to be welcoming Miranda July to Edinburgh to discuss her latest book, All Fours. It’s a tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life, from the New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man. July will be in conversation with journalist and author Chitra Ramaswamy.
Books for the Book & Ticket option will be available to collect at the venue. Doors due to open at 7pm.
In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of All Fours – The Portobello Bookshop will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book.
Please note that there will not be a livestream of this event.
About All Fours:
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty 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 45-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectations 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.
Please note: Tickets for our events are non-refundable. Professional photography and videography may take place during this event. Thank you for your understanding.
How to get here?
25 Nicolson Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9BX
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Participants:
Miranda July Author
Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker and artist. Her most recent book is The First Bad Man, a novel. July’s collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in 23 countries. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s, and the New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. In 2020 she debuted her third feature film, Kajillionaire. July lives in Los Angeles. @mirandajuly | mirandajuly.com
Chitra Ramaswamy Chair
Chitra Ramaswamy is a journalist and author from London. Her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship (Canongate) is a work of creative non-fiction exploring her friendship with a 99-year-old German Jewish refugee called Henry Wuga. It won the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was included in The Guardian’s top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi:ble, and Message From The Skies and recently completed a commission from the Alasdair Gray Archive. She is a freelance writer for The Guardian, the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, and broadcasts for BBC radio. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner, two children, and rescue dog
