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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
| Interests | Reading, writing, movies, music. |
| Favorite Movies | Six Degrees of Separation, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Shoot the Moon, Cabaret, The Year of Living Dangerously, Reds, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Hours, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Piano, Marat/Sade, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Moulin Rouge!, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Robert Altman's 3 Women, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dogville, Notes on a Scandal, Watership Down, Donnie Darko, The Portrait of a Lady, All About Eve, Desk Set, Long Day's Journey into Night, Howards End, 84 Charing Cross Road, If...., The Lord of the Rings, the list goes on... |
| Favorite Music | Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Keane, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Coldplay, R.E.M., Syd Matters, Everything But the Girl, Echo and the Bunnymen, Cowboy Junkies, Over the Rhine, Dar Williams, Neil Young, Equation, James Taylor, James, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, U2, Barenaked Ladies, Vangelis, Taylor Eigsti, Tori Amos, Equation, and plenty of others. Also, every song Cole Porter ever wrote. |
| Favorite Books | Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf), Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf), The Children of Violence sequence (Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, The Four-Gated City) (Doris Lessing), The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing), Bodily Harm (Margaret Atwood), The Hours (Michael Cunningham), The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood), Surfacing (Margaret Atwood), Possession (A.S. Byatt), Watership Down (Richard Adams), The Plague Dogs (Richard Adams), Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), 84 Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff), Bleak House (Charles Dickens), Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens), The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (George Meredith), Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy), The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James), The Turn of the Screw (Henry James), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), Howards End (E.M. Forster), Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence), The Siege of Krishnapur (J.G. Farrell), High Rise (J.G. Ballard), The Lathe of Heaven (Ursula K. Le Guin), Doomsday Book (Connie Willis), A Fall of Moondust (Arthur C. Clarke), Death in Venice (Thomas Mann), The Lost Language of Cranes (David Leavitt), Evening (Susan Minot), Julia (Peter Straub), Fear of Flying (Erica Jong), Doctor Slaughter (Paul Theroux), The Rabbit series (John Updike), Teaching a Stone to Talk (Annie Dillard), Holy the Firm (Annie Dillard), Dance of the Happy Shades (Alice Munro), Dune (Frank Herbert), A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle), His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman), Earth Abides (George R. Stewart), The Book of Atrix Wolfe (Patricia A. McKillip), Something Rich and Strange (Patricia A. McKillip and Brian Froud), Metaphysique des Tubes (Amelie Nothomb -- mille grazie, Valerio!)...I own nearly 9, 000 books, so the list is endless. |