Monica

• Age: 32
• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Cancer
• Zodiac Year: Snake
• Industry: Education
• Location: Los Angeles : California : United States

About Me

I get very little sleep. Darkness and the solitude of being the only person awake are illuminating.

Interests

• Midrash
• Midrashic Reading
• Buber
• Levinas
• Blanchot
• Jewish Fiction
• 20th Century American Fiction
• Multi-Ethnic Literature
• Chagall
• Holocaust Studies
• Toni Morrison
• Michael Kors shoes
• Darkness
• Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Martinis
• Maltese dogs

Favorite Movies

• Run Lola Run
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Walk the Line
• The Constant Gardener
• The Decalogue
• Overboard
• Tsotsi
• The Virgin Suicides
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Dodgeball
• Wedding Crashers
• Mulholland Drive
• The Lives of Others

Favorite Music

• Damien Rice
• Imogen Heap
• Susie Suh
• Earlimart
• Jem
• Keren Ann
• Missy Higgins
• Triky Spade
• Tupac
• Tori Amos
• Beck
• Sneaker Pimps
• Counting Crows
• Jay-Z
• Moby
• Beth Orton
• U2
• Mary J. Blige
• Leigh Nash
• Radiohead
• Brandi Carlile
• Feist
• Ari Hest
• Cary Brothers
• Griffin House
• Lykke Li
• Regina Spektor

Favorite Books

• City of God
• Love
• The Nakedness of the Fathers
• Wide Sargasso Sea
• Linda Hogan's Dwellings
• Nine Talmudic Readings
• The Far Euphrates
• Blindness
• I and Thou
• The Writing of the Disaster
• The Dying Animal
• Heir To the Glimmering World
• See: Under Love
• The God of Small Things
• Jane Eyre
• Ragtime
• Endgame
• Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores
• There Are Jews in My House
• White Noise
• Due Preparations for the Plague
• The Winter Vault

My Blogs	Team Members
Dreaming Without Memory in Strangled Sleep
Reading the Bible as Literature
Great American Books
The American Literary Response to Trauma