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Introduction "Not to be a slave to fashion or commerce, not to succumb to arid self-censorship, not to bow to popular opinion—what is all that but a description of the educated, enlightened life?" --Jeffrey Eugenides
Interests Joel Achenbach, Kurt Andersen, Russell Brand, Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Anatole France, Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Barbara Kingsolver, Jack London, George Orwell, Tom Robbins, John Steinbeck, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, Kurt Vonnegut, E.B. White, Tom Wolfe
Favorite Movies Casablanca, L.A. Confidential, High Fidelity, The Wizard of Oz, The Way We Were, Harold and Maude, Madame X, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, White Christmas
Favorite Music James Taylor, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, John Denver, Tim Weisberg, Alanis Morrisette, Stevie Wonder, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Dan Fogelberg, Arlo Guthrie, Edith Piaf
Favorite Books Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Tale of Two Cities, Notre Dame de Paris, Les Miserables, Knock, East of Eden, Jitterbug Perfume, Ciderhouse Rules, Martin Eden, Burmese Days, House at Pooh Corner, Yertle the Turtle, Charlotte's Web, The Bible, Five Smooth Stones, How To Be Alone, The Plague, Sirens of Titan, Slapstick, Timequake