Hedgie
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired college teacher |
| Location | Deep South |
| Interests | Reading all those books I said I would when I retired, writing poetry on occasion, cooking |
| Favorite Movies | "84 Charing Cross Road", "The Producers", "The Hunt for Red October", "The Guns of Navarone", "Noises Off, " "Doctor Strangelove" |
| Favorite Music | Classical |
| Favorite Books | Constantly evolving; some current favorites include "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami, "God's Bits of Wood" by Sembene Osmane, "The War of the Saints" by Jorge Amado, "jelly roll {a blues}" by Kevin Young, "Music's Mask and Measure" by Jay Wright, "Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences" by Jan Zwicky, "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" by Marina Lewycha, "Venus Equilateral" by George O. Smith, "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler, "Baltasar and Blimunda" by Jose Saramago, "Waiting" by Ha Jin, "The Code of the Woosters" by P. G. Wodehouse, "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett, "Delta Wedding" by Eudora Welty, "Elephant Rocks" and "Say Uncle" by Kay Ryan, "Pallbearers Envying the One who Rides" by Stephen Dobyns, "Housekeeping" by Marilyn Robinson, "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen, "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol, "The Housekeeper and the Professor" by Yoko Ogawa, "Dance Night" by Dawn Powell, "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph P. Ellis, "Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson, "Dreamland" by Kevin Baker |