Brooke
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Instructor of English |
| Location | Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
| Introduction | White boxes intended to encapsulate my entire being are terrifying. That being said, about me: I love my husband, my dogs, my books, and my mother and grandmother. I'm a crier. It cleanses me and I enjoy it. I think I'm great at it. It's difficult to speak to me about politics, because unfortunately you will never be as right as I am (I mean correct, not right-leaning. Ugh.). My first memory involves locking myself in a room at two years old and being rescued by firefighters. My second memory is reading a book that my grandfather wrote for me. It was lovely; I was the main character. So there it is: I'm a writer. |
| Interests | Politics, fighting for social justice, running, reading, writing, pontificating, working on reflexivity (and flexibility), trying to strike that fine line between funny and obnoxious (usually landing square in obnoxious territory), hugging even (especially!) the unhuggables, pulling ticks from my dogs, expecting the unexpected |
| Favorite movies | The oeuvres of a number of directors: Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, David Gordon Green, Max Ophuls, Ingmar Berman. Movies hard to find at movie stores. Funny movies about people I think might care about me. Sweet and real movies, like Flannel Pajamas. Dorky as it sounds, I feel most movies are a miracle and treasure most (minus the work of Eddie Murphy in the past fifteen years). |
| Favorite music | Joni Mitchell, Mos Def, Jay-Z, Felice Brothers, Avett Brothers. Artists with duende. |
| Favorite books | Swann's Way, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Madame Bovary, Maps to Anywhere, This Boy's Life, Liar's Club, I Remember, In Cold Blood, Where the Red Fern Grows, All the King's Men, and too many others to enumerate |
The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?
Like Icarus ascending, on beautiful foolish arms. It was just a false alarm.