1. Writing & Reading 2. The Women of Minneapolis 3. Politics 4. Yoga 5. Dance 6. Tennis 7. Piano 8. Hypermiling 9. Calling Senator Norm Coleman at 202-224-5641 to urge him to quit being Bush's Butt Boy. It's fun, you should try it!
1. Mean people suck, unless of course they're very rich/good-looking/interesting.2. People as cool as the people I already know.3. Hipsters4. Other Writers:6. Intellectuals who don't know it7. Misfits
Louder. Please. I'm listening to something on repeat as you read this.....................
I love the following video because
1. I am a child of the 80s and early 90s
2. Anything banned in Germany is good by me
3. When you sleep at night they don't hear your cries in your own world:
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Heat, Love Liza, Half Nelson, The Host, Infamous, The Last Seduction, Secretary, And The Band Played On. Guilty Pleasure: Stomp the Yard. GO SEE: AN UNREASONABLE MAN.Me You & Everyone We Know:
The Awful Truth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u1kXmU0g64; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3MSi3uf8GA&mode=related& amp;search= ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Z0aSVcKQ8&mode=related& amp;search= Frontline, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Big Love, Rome, Ali G
Poetry: all Carl Phillips. The Mother's Tongue by local poet Heid Erdrich. Memoir: The Kiss by Katherine Harrison. Fiction: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood is nice and twisted. The White by Debora Larsen, Darkest Desire by Anthony Schmitz, Notes From Underground, No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July, Poisen by Katherine Harrison, Love Medicine by regional hero Louise ErdrichAn in no way comprehensive list of SHORT STORIES I love: "Secession, XX" by Kellie Wells, "We Didn't" by Stuart Dybek, almost all the stories in "The Good Life" by Erin McGraw, "Reasons to live" & "The Man in Bogotá" by Amy Hempel, all of Lorrie Moore's stories, all of A.M. Homes, most of Aimee Bender, "Zog-19" by Pickney Benedict, "Missing Women" by June Spence, "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" by Kellie Link, "The Depressed Person" by David Foster Wallace (although my students LOATHED this story), most of Grace Paley's work, and a book I took a bit of flak for liking when I was in grad school "The Meaning of Lunch" by Dan Leone. AMERICAN SHORT-SHORTS (from Sudden Fiction): "Can-Can" by Arturo Vivante, "Even Greenland" by Barry Hannah, "Twirler" by Jane Martin, "Pygmalion" by John Updike, "Yours" by Mary Robison, "Sunday at the Zoo" by Stuart Dybek, "Disappearing" by Monica Wood, "The School" by Donal Barthelme. INTERNATIONAL SHORT-SHORTS (most can be found in Sudden Fiction International) "The Falling Girl" by Dino Buzzati, "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood, "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, "The Elephant" by Slawomir Mrozek, "All At One Point" by Italo Calvino, "There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella" by Fernando Sorrentino.MICRO-FICTION (from the book Micro-Fiction): "The Poet's Husband" by Molly Giles, "The Cough" by Harry Humes, "Wrong Channel" by Roberto Fernandez, "Worry" by Ron Wallace, "Wallet" by Allen Woodman..........................Okay, so I did it--I read a book off the bestseller list, and I actually kind of liked it: The Glass Castle.
The Hamburglar--I can't resist red meat or a good thief. Also Charles Baxter. See my interview at: http://cenhum.artsci.wustl.edu/Belle-Lettres/marapr03.html. My brother home from 3 tours as a machine-gunner in Diwaniya, Ramadi and Fallujah, and now a body building champion: ..Amber--Tough, and Loyal:My friend Alyssa. We don't always agree on politics (which is more fun anyway) but I admire the way she goes after knowledge and speaks to power. Or, in this case, Ralph Nadar:27 year old prof, writer and friend, Holly Goddard-Jones:Crackers: