73: All Fours - Miranda July

From Writers Who Read by Gary Alan McBride

December 28, 2025 · 47 min · Season 3 · Episode 2

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on Miranda July's novel 'All Fours' with insights into literary techniques and themes.

Whitney Pinion, Rachel Dempsey, and Gary McBride talk about All Fours by Miranda July, which is Writers Who Read book number 73. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com . More information about Literary Forensics is available here and here . In every episode we analyze and discuss one novel that has been published within the past 18-24 months. We do this because we are writers who read with intent–we read to study content and form and to uncover techniques that we can apply to our own writing. We read like writers, turning our favorite authors into our writing teachers. We do this through Literary Forensics , a set of tools that allow us to look beyond the surface of plot points, down into the tapestry of themes, contexts, and symbols that hold the very intentions of the author. We uncover why they wrote this novel and how they did it. If you'd like to join our LIVE! meetings in person, find upcoming novel titles and event registration information here and be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter . Writers Who Read has been meeting in Boulder, Colorado, since 2018, and we are affiliated with the Boulder Writers Alliance…

People in this episode

Host: Gary McBride

Guests: Whitney Pinion, Rachel Dempsey

Topics covered

literary analysis
novel discussion
writing techniques
Miranda July
Writers Who Read

Keywords

All Fours
Miranda July
literary forensics
writing techniques
novel analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Writers Who Read, Boulder Writers Alliance

Books & works: All Fours

Places: Boulder, Colorado