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Augusten Burroughs: Dry : A Memoir
This book was a much anticipated read for me. At first I was struck by how amazing the writing was- its much more crisp and fluid prose. But then I got bored- wait is this really a book entirely about rehab and post rehab. Then right when I was ready to yawn and leave it- walk away with in unfinished; it got a little nutty! Crack addicts, death, weird signs from the dead. Still- I am happy I read it. I just like getting to know AugustenJonathan Franzen: The Corrections: A Novel
Andrew O'Hehir: "If it were possible to strip away the breathless blurbation, the vapid magazine profiles and the envious cocktail chatter (although of course it isn't), we'd be left with an ingenious update of the old-fashioned Anglo-American social novel: an ironic family chronicle, by turns comic and sober, that seeks to measure the strength and density of the moral weave enfolding its characters."Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!! Its so dirty and painful and gritty and gross and such a quick read. Must be the last name!Lajos Egri: Art of Creative Writing
He keeps you real!Sidney Lumet: Making Movies (Vintage)
I've been rereading at night and its brought back lessons from 6 yrs ago. Such a solid does of WisdomDeborah Copaken Kogan: Shutterbabe : Adventures in Love and War
Become inspired to live a cooler life.Hettie Jones: How I Became Hettie Jones
A really brave spunky and unique voice!Anatole Broyard: Kafka Was the Rage : A Greenwich Village Memoir (Vintage)
This is who the Human Stain was written about! This book is so well written you feel a sort of sensual connection to it. You can't wait to get to it everyday. You want to understand and you remember why being a writer is such a coveted thing! How sad that he only wrote this an incomplete novel. Plus its fascinating to read about beat culture in the 50sIra Wood: The Kitchen Man
LAzy chef meets older writer and they make mad sweet love in the garden- no one has heard of this book!William Faulkner: Light in August (Vintage International)
My favorite book from HS and College. This story is the kind of fable that weaves through peoples lives like a storm changing everything and yet showing that everything remains the same- our heros are a rascist self hating birracial murderer and a heavyset unwed pregnant girl. You love them both!Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen
I forgot how much I loved this book. Banana is one of my favorite writers- I have read everything by her. She tells stories of uncommon almost mystical characters in the backdrop of everyday modern Japanese culture. But unlike most of her contemporaries- she does not focus on the emotional and sexual repression that is linked to most Japenese stories- her stories of ripe with messy open wounds and gratuitous sex- thats how we like it!Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
I loved this book. I could not get enough of it and felt cheated when it ended. Both Kavelier and Clay are so pleasurable to get ot know and so full of surprises- but really makes this book amazing is the insight into NY art history and comics in the early thirties and forties and the life of Jews and Nazzis in the States during the war. I guarentee you will like this book!Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated
A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to FoerJeffrey Eugenides: MiddleSex
Hermophraditic genious tells the tale of this Greek/Turkish Asia Minor family and their incestious love! This is entwined with ancient history and philosophy.
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So this is my blog: I like to think of this as the place where the little baby thoughts are born- I have some industrial machinery/ spurting out babies/ Pink Floyd the Wall imagery in my head for this- But I'll spare you. Perhaps the blog wiill spurn something genious or tangibly convince me to get a law degree. I am a writer, a film maker and a person who has an ordinary not that challenging day job in TV. Gotta start somewhere.
So this is my incubator- bare with me, get to know me- maybe even change me with your thoughts and comments or even more pleasurably - tell me to shut up.
SOME STATS:
I was born on the Automne Equinox- Sept 22
My mom has an accent- thats cool to some people.
She's a scientist- thats cool to me- She's little, spunky, annoying and awesome!
My dad is really cuddly, I don't think that I have ever met a nicer guy. But he is also obtuse. He's a doctor, so some times I get care in this country that everyone else SHOULD have. He has photographic memory and I'm jealous.
I have one older sister who teaches childrenand was offened that she was not mentioned here - so there ya go.
I was raised on Staten Island with a lot of trees
and horses, hugs, "I loves ya to pieces," and annoying neurotic anxt wrid Jewish parentalisms.
I went to school in Maryland- I hated it. But I love Juli, Maria, Mary Carman, and Wendy for existing.
I got my Graduate Degree in Film from Columbia: MFA. It was really fun, hard work, and life changing. I'm in huge debt and still learning to crawl while my CU brothers and sisters are either MIA or walking down the Cannes Red Carpet
Sometimes I put my stereo on really loud and dance in my underwear - and that definately does not make me Madonna- plus I think my old roomies use to catch me all the time.
When I was little and bored in Italy - I made up people in my head to talk to- I think I got caught then too.
I trained to be a Yoga teacher. I lost 110lbs two years ago.
Interests
Films, Film making, video making, art making, fun making, love making, joke making, Bed making, muscle making, adventure making, cookie making, hugs, drugs, kisses, trees, my friends' lives and getting into a really hardand twisty yoga pose after flowing for about an hour
