marianne
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | PhD student / English instructor |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | If there's pizza around, I'll eat it all; I love staying up all night with a good novel; I have a "useless" Master's degree; I often argue for the sake of arguing; I'm sometimes referred to as "Mergie" because of my aggressive driving style; my favorite time of day is twilight; and I'm married to my very best friend, who puts up with the inconveniences that the above characteristics sometimes cause. |
| Interests | literature, film, music, cooking, eating, gardening, fashion, politics, people-watching |
| Favorite movies | Hudsucker Proxy, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, City of God, Remains of the Day, Howard's End, High Fidelity, The Godfather, Good Night and Good Luck, Capote, Amelie, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Sideways, Children of Men |
| Favorite music | Smiths, Sufjan Stevens, Feist, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Clash, Cure, Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, Interpol, Great Lake Swimmers, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Tom Waits, Neko Case, White Stripes |
| Favorite books | Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, An American Childhood, A Grief Observed, Traveling Mercies, The Brothers Karamazov, A Room of One's Own, The Crying of Lot 49, The House on the Lagoon, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Bluebeard, The Grapes of Wrath, Lolita, Villette, Great Expectations, The Sound and the Fury, everything by Flannery O'Connor, poetry by T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Li-Young Lee, Robert Browning, and William Butler Yeats |
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