Norman Shapiro

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About me

Industry Arts
Occupation Book Artist
Location New York, New York, United States
Introduction I'm 83, one eyed, celebrating our 55th wedding anniversary next Thanksgiving Day. My daughter is a novelist. I'm a book artist and a semi retired art teacher.
Interests All kinds of Art, Theatre, Music, Ballet, Books, Good Eating, Science, History, Fiction.
Favorite Movies Love seeing them movie theatres, Too many favorites to list.My wife orders all kinds of stuff with Netflix
Favorite Music Jazz. Ella, Ellington, & Armstrong, etc. The Old masters: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach & Brahms ... Love live concerts :chamber music, Any live perfromance that doesn't deafen me.
Favorite Books Anything by Patrick O'Brian, Coetze, Books on histories of math, physics, cosmology, and whatever I never learned about when I was a young student. Stuff about great inventors, scientists, artists. Aslo Shakespeare, Greek tragedians, T.S. Elliot. Prose by Ezra Pound, Addicted to mysteries and detective fiction.

When you've got water stuck in your ear, how do you get it out?

No. Not lately