David Maine
My blogs
| Industry | Publishing |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Introduction | An old-fashioned pen-on-paper writer adds his musings to the endless aching howl of the internet. |
| Interests | Literature, music, movies, food, travel, snorkeling. |
| Favorite movies | Nashville (1976), Amores Perros (2003), Duck Soup (1933), The Brother From Another Planet (1984), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Brazil (1986), The Thing From Another World (1951), Them! (1955), Babel (2006). |
| Favorite music | Tinariwen, Baaba Maal, Cracker, Kings of Leon, Espers, AC/DC, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Rage Against the Machine, The Black Keys, Bettye LaVette. |
| Favorite books | My own--HA! Trespassing by Uzma Aslam Khan (disclaimer: I'm married to her, but it's an amazing book anyway). Anything by Flannery O'Connor and Langston Hughes, the two best 20th century American storytellers IMO. Also: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, A Long Time Gone by Ishmael Beah, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, English Passengers by Matthew Kneale, Music and Silence by Rose Tremain, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Known World by Edward P. Jones. |
Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?
By avoiding people. And also by never saying anything.