Favorite Books: The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, The Big Sleep, Treasure Island, Canterbury Tales, Crime and Punishment, I Capture the Castle, Lucky Jim, Carter Beats the Devil, Curious George Flies a Kite, Huckleberry Finn, The Grapes of Wrath, Our Man in Havana, Sleep ‘Til Noon, The Code of the Woosters, About a Boy, Bonfire of the Vanities, The Odyssey, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Favorite Authors: Graham Greene, P.G. Wodehouse, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Douglas Coupland, Haruki Murakami, Tom Wolfe, Richard Dawkins

Favorite Genres: General Fiction, Russian Lit, Crime Noir

Favorite Characters: Philip Marlowe, Jay Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, Bertie Wooster, Carter the Great, Auntie Mame

Recent Reads: Goodreads knows all!

I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.