Rebecca Miller, writer & filmmaker

Bio

Rebecca Miller is the author of the short story collection “Personal Velocity” (2001) and the novel “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee”, which has been published in over thirty countries. For the film version of “Personal Velocity”, she won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. She has also written and directed the award-winning films “Angela” and “The Ballad of Jack and Rose”, and most recently “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.”

Rebecca Miller lives in New York and Ireland with her family.

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More about Rebecca Miller’s work in film: imdb.com

Queer

I just read “Queer” by William Burroughs. It’s an astonishing book, a glimpse into such vulnerability, so direct. The emotional descriptions are what I liked best about it. Communicating precise feeling. Also the total transparency, the willingness to be truly seen–not that this isn’t fiction; it is of course, but you can see down through [...]

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A friend of mine

recently said it’s important to do something badly but in a dedicated way. I thought about this. At first I thought, I do nothing without a goal. But then I realized I have been doing yoga since I was seven, not all the time–not enough at all– but in a regular way, and I still [...]

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on memory

yes to you who mentioned Eudora, in response to my bog about her. How when memory flows through a person the living and the dead co-mingle. I am sorry not to be able to respond more exactly to those of you who have asked me questions. I don’t know, is the truth of it, I [...]

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i am alive

This is indeed a living blog, though it has been hibernating for a while. I have been writing this book every spare second. But I will try now to write a little something more regularly. I have been teaching once a week at NYU, a course called Directing the Actor. My students are undergraduates. I [...]

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Barbara Browning. Dreams in films. Lions.

Here is something I am excited about: Barbara Browning’s first published novel, The Correspondence Artist, is coming out in February. I think it’s a unique, deeply modern book. Also sexy. Perhaps some of you would enjoy it. My opinion goes beyond the fact that Barbara is my best friend. We met in college. She appeared [...]

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