Margie

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Music:

Movies:

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Television:

Twilight Zone.

Books:

Anna Karenina (if I could marry a book, it would be Anna). My newest, all-consuming obsession: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clark. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson. The Count of Monte Cristo; East of Eden (any Steinbeck really); Lady Chatterly's Lover; A Tale of Two Cities, Charlie Dickens, the drinking buddy of my dreams. Jealousy, Robbe-Grillet; Salinger's Catcher in the Rye; Lolita; Sappho; Whitman's Leaves of Grass; Milton's Paradise Lost; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Much Ado. Carson McCullers. Jean Anouilh. Sarah Kane (more for emotional support than literary appreciation). Fay Weldon and Angela Carter. The Queen of Canada: Margaret Atwood. The luscious lesbian trio of contemporary literary London: Jeanette Wintersen, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters. All Raymond Chandler. More importantly, all Patricia Highsmith. Gregory Maguire. Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson. Frankenstein and Dracula. Edgar Allen Poe, father of my children. Arthur C. Clark and Ray Bradbury. Little Birds, Anais Nin; Under the Roofs of Paris, Henry Miller; any Bukowski novel; if you read Bukowski, you have to read John Fante. The Story of O and Venus in Furs. Early American: Willa Cather, Edith Wharton. Above all, the sublime smutty novels of Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge and Duluth. And that wonderful portrait of American adultery: John Updike's Couples. Kurt Vonnegut is the water of literature for which we all thirst. Criticism to change one's life: Howard Barker's Death, The One and the Art of Theatre and Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae.

Heroes:

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Anton Chekhov

Anais Nin

Henry Miller

Kurt Vonnegut (1923-2007)