The Surly Old Bookbroad
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Bookseller, Writer, Photographer, Artist |
| Location | Eugene, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | I have been an antiques dealer, professional journalist and photographer, artist, illustrator, editor, poet, chicken and goat farmer. Currently I sell used and rare books and ephemera. |
| Interests | Books, ephemera, art, collage, writing, photography, gardening, nature, critters, cooking, music, friends. |
| Favorite movies | Bye Bye Blues, Eat Drink Man Woman, Babette's Feast, The Acre, Secondhand Lions, Tampop, Birdie, most musicals. |
| Favorite music | Classical, folk, ethnic, blues, guitar, and just about anything with musicality, harmony, rhythm. |
| Favorite books | The Oxford English Dictionary, Fup, Book of the Dun Cow, poetry by William Stafford, and 20,000 others. |
Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?
There is iron in a penny and iron in our blood. A penny-ante irony.