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Author: Miranda Mellis

Miranda Mellis is the author of the novel Crocosmia (forthcoming, Nightboat Books); three novellas, The Revisionist, The Spokes, and The Quarry; and a short-story collection, None of This Is Real. Her poetry and nonfiction books and chapbooks include The Revolutionary, Demystifications, Unconsciousness Raising, and Materialisms. She is the co-author of two book-length dialogues: The Instead with Emily Abendroth and Passing Through with Rick Moody. With Tisa Bryant and Kate Schatz, she was a founding co-editor at The Encyclopedia Project. She grew up in San Francisco and now lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest where she is a professor at The Evergreen State College. Read her intermittencies intermittently here.

DEFER YOUR ENTHUSIASM (19)

By: Miranda Mellis

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

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VURT YOUR ENTHUSIASM (20)

By: Miranda Mellis

Samuel R. Delany’s STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND

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MÖSH YOUR ENTHUSIASM (20)

By: Miranda Mellis

The Afflicted’s HERE COME THE COPS

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TEEN YOUR ENTHUSIASM (7)

By: Miranda Mellis

To play loudly, virtuosically, and to the exclusion of all else…

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KILL YOUR ENTHUSIASM (3)

By: Miranda Mellis

Lisa Kimmel Fisher

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BLURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (5)

By: Miranda Mellis

Phrase of future past

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KOJAK YOUR ENTHUSIASM (17)

By: Miranda Mellis

High school is the theater; classroom is the stage.

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KICK YOUR ENTHUSIASM (13)

By: Miranda Mellis

He watched me choose, stretching.

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NERD YOUR ENTHUSIASM (15)

By: Miranda Mellis

I particularly like the space “the analysis” makes for ambivalence.

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FIVE-O YOUR ENTHUSIASM (14)

By: Miranda Mellis

The mess is inside.

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FERB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (1)

By: Miranda Mellis

What is the cultural heritage of a star child?

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12 DAYS OF SIGNIFICANCE (66)

By: Miranda Mellis

Why the plastic sandwich, the rubber carrot and the brass apple?

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CARBONA YOUR ENTHUSIASM (13)

By: Miranda Mellis

“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard…”

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MOVIE OBJECTS (9)

By: Miranda Mellis

It is liminal, this limo. It is in limbo. Ambivalent, stuck in a rut.

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KLAATU YOU (2)

By: Miranda Mellis

“Listen to me! I want to trade lives with you.”

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