mel favara

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation English teacher
Location Portland, OR, United States
Introduction I am a writer, teacher, and mom to Ramona, nearly four. I invented 1,000 Words as a way to prod myself and others into action. Writing, reading, and keeping a record of our experiences are sacred tasks.
Favorite Movies Nights of Cabiria, Mean Streets, Clueless, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, The Third Man, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve.
Favorite Books Ulysses, all of Jane Austen, Anna Karenina, Gravity's Rainbow, Blood Meridian, Moby Dick, short fiction of Hemingway & Barthelme, all of Raymond Chandler, most of Dashiell Hammett, Jacques the Fatalist, and others.

You've broken up with your old band and are about to release your first solo album. Please write the liner notes:

Now you'll know who to blame.