Marilyn BG
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | searching and giving thanks |
| Location | Bozeman, Montana, United States |
| Introduction | Resigned 2 years ago from my job as a tenure-track professor of Japanese literature and culture, after spending 17 of my 40 years at it. The challenge of getting a PhD and being in a high-pressure career served me well, but it's time to make space for creative pursuits. So along with the horseplay and banana bread baking with my 4-year-old,I'm trying my hand at creative writing, cultivating the "beginner's mind" with guitar and drawing,and seeing whether I can get our house to look perfectly decorated--HA! |
| Interests | Family, friends, yoga, writing, reading, music, movies, skiing, camping, gardening, cooking, baking, learning, parenting, soaking, running, cycling, walking, spicy food, good espresso, stories spoken and written, kimchi, natto, good ramen |
| Favorite Movies | After Life, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Yojimbo, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Tampopo, The Big Lebowski, Broadcast News, Tootsie, The Godfather I and II, Tokyo Story, Jackie Brown, Harold and Maude, The French Connection, The Snowman (animated short), Miller's Crossing |
| Favorite Music | Bonnie Raitt, Beck, old Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Zero Seven, Air, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Elgar, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Jude, Ben Folds Five, The Breeders, Jackie Brown soundtrack, Garden State soundtrack |
| Favorite Books | Fumiko Enchi's The Waiting Years, Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Jonathan Franzens's The Corrections, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible, Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies, Rombauer's The Joy of Cooking, Soseki Natsume's Kokoro, Hirabayashi Taiko's Sabaku no hana (not translated yet--maybe I'll do it?), Dickens's David Copperfield, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy, Kyoko Mori's One Bird, Kenzaburo Oe's Nip the Buds/Shoot the Kids, Lorrie Moore's short stories, Alice Munro's short stories, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, L.Frank Baum's Oz series, Ruth Bornstein's Little Gorilla |