The Golden Age of Middle Age

Why isn't this boom! being talked about more?

I finally read All Fours, by Miranda July this week. It came out in May, three weeks before my book, to enormous fanfare, and has been hovering over my summer ever since. Launching a book turns you into a marketing monster in ways that are deeply unpleasant, and I’m loathe to say that some of the coverage July received, made me feel like it was overlapp…