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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Chemicals
Occupation	Writer, Actor, Educator, (M)other
Location	Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction	BUT AREN’T BLOGS SUPPOSED TO BE ALL ABOUT VULNERABILITY; SUBJECTIVITY (Ariana Reines)
Interests	books, plays, poems, art, meaning, Magoo, other stuff
Favorite Movies	The Edge of Heaven, Head-On, Ponette, Belle de Jour, Persona, Annie Hall, Manhattan, In the Mood for Love, Heavenly Creatures, The Hours, The Sweet Hereafter, You Can Count on Me, Husbands and Wives, King of Comedy, most by Almodovar, most by Cassevetes (esp A Woman Under the Influence), Adaptation, After the Wedding, An Angel at My Table, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, many, many more.
Favorite Books	The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson, AVA by Carole Maso, The Star Cafe by Mary Caponegro, Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil, Herzog by Saul Bellow, No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf, Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Mrs Dalloway by Virgina Woolf, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, The Ravishing of Lol V Stein by Duras, anything by Joan Didion but lately A Year of Magical Thinking, Infinite Jest and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Oblivion by David Foster Wallace, Don Quixote by Kathy Acker, Because She Wanted to by Mary Gaitskill, Black Sun by Julia Kristeva, The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag (critical writing), Birds of America by Lorrie Moore, Forty Stories by Barthelme, anything by Lydia Davis but especially Break it Down, The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, much by Margaret Atwood, The Ecstasy of Capitulation by Daniel Borzutzky, The Cow by Ariana Reines, When the Messenger Is Hot by Elizabeth Crane, Fun Home by Allison Bechdel, the plays of Nicky Silver, the plays of Caryl Churchill, the plays of Wallace Shawn, the plays of Sarah Kane, the plays of David Adjmi, oh my god so many many more. i can't even.