It Chooses You

Description:

While writing the script for her 2011 film *The Future*, Miranda July sought inspiration from the most unlikely of places: A weekly classified ads booklet. *It Chooses You* includes a series of interviews the author conducted with people who placed ads for various items or services, along with short snippets concerning her writing process for *The Future* plus some autobiographical notes. The book also includes photographs by Brigitte Sire, who accompanied July for the interviews.

subjects: Screenwriters,  Biography,  Motion picture authorship,  Los angeles (calif.), biography,  Authors, biography,  Retail trade,  American periodicals,  Advertising, classified,  Dealers (Retail trade),  Small-space advertising,  Détaillants,  Petites annonces,  PennySaver,  Film & Video,  Women motion picture producers and directors,  Anecdotes