Bookshelves, hot cocoa, literature, Paris, satin pumps, New York City history, museums, photography, traveling (I don't like to fly, though!), YA fiction, the French Riveria, learning how to cook as well as my mom, linguistics, fur muffs, ballet, daydreaming.
Readers of my books, or anyone who loves to read, old friends, new friends, fascinating and fun people.
Aimee Mann, Kanye West, Belle and Sebastian, Lucinda Williams, Bach, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Liz Phair, The Black-Eyed Peas (mostly their old stuff), Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan & Marley, The Roots, OutKast, Roxy Music, Shakira (her Spanish stuff), Manu Chao, Dar Williams, many more...
Blazing Saddles, The Princess Bride, Kissing Jessica Stein, Chacun Cherche Son Chat, Annie Hall, Manhattan, La Haine, Amelie, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (really!), the documentary Paris is Burning, Tootsie, Sense and Sensibility,and so on...
Grey's Anatomy, Freaks and Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex and the City, Ali G, Project Runway.
Authors I love: Philip Roth, Sophie Kinsella, Michael Chabon, Francesca Lia Block, the Bronte sisters, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Fielding, Saul Bellow, Jane Austen, Lori Moore, Toni Morrison, Melissa de la Cruz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kate DiCamillo, Peter Mayle, Hailey Abbott, James Joyce, a very diverse group...
My grandmothers.