Female |
September 12 |
Virginia |
Writing, reading, publishing, Asian-American interests, global development, early Baroque music, small presses, social media, pop culture, the internet, chocolate and the Bible |
Young Adult/Middle Grade, Fantasy/Science Fiction, Literary, Ethnic/Multicultural |
Birds of America, The Blind Assassin, Distortions, Dune, The Earthsea Cycle, Ender's Game, The Giver, The Great Gatsby, The God of Small Things, The Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potter, To the Lighthouse, The Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire |
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, Roberto Bolano, Orson Scott Card, Lorrie Moore, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alice Munro, Kurt Vonnegut, Chang-Rae Lee, Haruki Murakami, John Updike and Jack Kerouac |
Sylvia Plath, Rae Armantrout, Baudelaire, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Mary Oliver, John Donne, WCW, Stephen Mallarmé, Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, Sharon Olds, Charles Bukowski, John Yau, Mayakovsky, Louise Gluck, & WB Yeats |
"What if there were a hidden pleasure in calling one thing by another’s name?" - Rae Armantrout |
Iron & Wine, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House, MGMT, The Decemberists, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Broken Social Scene, We Are Scientists, Calexico, The Hush Sound, dirty projectors, Justin Nozuka & Paramore |
Amadeus, City of God, Ever After, Fargo, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, El laberinto del fauno, The Lion King, Lord of the Rings, Mean Girls, Memento, Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, There Will Be Blood, Twelve Angry Men, Up, The Usual Suspects |