I'd like to meet:
bag ladies
Music:
Deer Tick, Jens Lekman, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Pwrfl Power, Diego Perez, Triangle Forest, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Zero 7, ETC.
Books:
Mom Kills Kids and Self, How I Became Stupid, The Bell Jar, Wicked, Son of a Witch, The Lovely Bones, One Hundred Years of Solitude, She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Motorcycle Diaries, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, The Corrections, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Awakening, The Poisonwood Bible, Perfume: the Story of a Murderer, Eva Luna, 1984, Animal Farm, Lysistrata, Herland, ETC.
Short Stories: Baron Wormser's "William Blake," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Alice Munroe's "Passion," Dostoievski's "The Crocodile" and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," Ben Rice's "Pobby and Dingan" and Kate Grenville's "Mate"