leftedge suzy
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Location | Corvallis, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | I'm the author of Pretty Is As Pretty Does and Twenty Questions. Hey, why not buy the dang books? |
| Interests | Okay, my sister says: what the hell does that mean, left edge suzy? She's from Texas and they are very literal. Also, this is how she said it: wut the hail duz thet me-un? And here is the answer: I don't want to give the blog my own name because that seems narcissistic, but maybe personal blogs are inherently narcissistic and who am I fooling? I named it left edge because I live in Oregon and Oregon is the left edge of the map. There used to be, by the way, a great newspaper put out by Billy Hults in Cannon Beach, Oregon, called The Upper Left Edge, but I didn't copy him. Suzy is the name of the character in the first short story I ever wrote, Suzy Joins the Sex Club. Even though I think Suzy is dead wrong about feelings being the most important thing in the world, I do admire her honest passion and I like her name. |
| Favorite movies | The Colour of Paradise, The Official Story, A Room With a View, The Sea Within, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Fargo, Dirty Pretty Things, 21 Grams, Munich. Chuck says that I just like dark movies, but it’s not true. I also love Roddy Doyle’s work, especially The Snapper and The Commitments. And I loved Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Adaptation and Brother Where Art Thou, and those aren’t very dark. |
| Favorite music | Marvin Gaye, Gillian Welch, Leeann Atherton, Steve Earle and (when I watch too much CNN) Mozart |
| Favorite books | my favorite writers are Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Naguib Mahfouz, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Raymond Carver, Jenny Erpenbeck. How's that for being all over the place? |