M. Carrie Allan
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Writer/editor |
| Location | Washington, DC, United States |
| Introduction | "I wanted to be a rain salesman, but there were no openings in the rain department." - John Engman |
| Interests | Reading, writing, travel, cooking, painting, concocting and writing about cocktails, hanging out with dogs |
| Favorite movies | 8 1/2, The Godfather, Heat, The Remains of the Day, All About Eve, Rear Window, The Third Man, It's a Wonderful Life, virtually anything by the Coen Bros. |
| Favorite music | Tom Waits, Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, U2, Leonard Cohen, Warren Zevon, Paul Simon, Zeppellin |
| Favorite books | Straight Man, Birds of America, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, Waterland, Interpreter of Maladies, The Shell Collector, To Kill a Mockingbird ... love good nonfiction (The Botany of Desire is astounding); have a longstanding soft spot for Stephen King; love Richards Russo, Bausch, and Ford; and read a lot of poetry -- mostly contemporary (Jane Hirshfield, Terrance Hayes, Campbell McGrath), but Auden, Justice, and Larkin are my Holy Trinity. |