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Books, literature, publishing.
The next James Joyce.
Kurt Weill, Khaled and rai in general, Gogol Bordello and tzigane in general, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappeli, French music hall/cafe, Francoise Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, ye-ye in general, Serge Gainsbourg.Art: The Italian Masters, The Surrealists, Stanley Spencer.
Reds. Renoir. Troma! Billy Wilder. Ken Loach. Nancy Savoca. Gary Walkow. Josiane Belasko. Baisers Volés. Minneapolis homeboys the Coens. Jean Vigo. De Palma. Preston Sturges.Guilty Pleasures: Silly movies like Mom and Dad Save the World, The Imposters, Radioland Murders, Bubble Boy... Actors: Alan Rickman.
Deadwood. Rome. John from Cincinnati. Carnivale. Animaniacs. The Comeback. Gilmore Girls. Bosom Buddies. Allo Allo . That Girl. Jack and Bobby. Twin Peaks.
EDITORS' FAVORITE NOVELISTS [Cantarabooks Editor Michael Matheny] Burroughs. Philip Roth.[Cantarabooks Editor Cantara Christopher] Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Bronte. Particularly Emily. The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez. And the books we publish. Any book I'm reading at the moment is my favorite book.
________________ Classics: The Pickwick Papers. Don Quixote. Bocaccio's Decameron, Virgil, Homer - and Joyce's Ulysses, of course!Theater: Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen, Strindberg, O'Neill, Williams, Mamet, Albee. The usual lot. Strongest influence on my own plays: For A Dreadful Husband, Pinter and Coward. For The Lovers of Woodside, John Guare.Philosophers/Theorists: St Augustine, Guillaume Postel, Giambattista Vico; Soren Kierkegaard; Karl Jaspers; Erik Erikson; Erich Auerbach; Hannah Arendt.Historians: Eric Foner, Niall Ferguson, Frederic Jameson.
Hugh Thompson; Ron Ridenhour; Rosa Parks; Viola Liuzzo; Captain Michel Bacos and the crew of Air France Flight 139; the passengers and crew of United Flight 93; St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein); Sophie Scholl; Jose Rizal; Emma Goldman; Eva Kor; Grace Paley; Susan McDougal; Marian Fisher, 13, and Barbie Fisher, 12, and all others who refuse to leave despair as their legacy.