Melissa

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About me

Location Chicago
Introduction I'm a Chicago-based writer and editor. My work has appeared in Time Out Chicago, the Chicago Journal, Venus Zine, Bookslut, and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Interests books, writing, theater, the alchemy of food, swimming, baseball (White Sox), people with uncommon interests, reading cookbooks before bed (grants good dreams).
Favorite Movies The Third Man, The Graduate, Une femme est une femme, Touch of Evil, Harold and Maude, Down By Law
Favorite Music Solomon Burke, Five Royales, Fiery Furnaces, White Stripes, Sam Cooke, Nick Drake, Chet Baker, PJ Harvey, Andrew Bird. And, always, Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
Favorite Books Pale Fire, 100 Years of Solitude, V., The Information, A Confederacy of Dunces