Jacob Russell

• Age: 68
• Gender: Male
• Occupation: writer, teacher
• Location: Philadelphia : Pennsylvania : United States

About Me

I write poetry and fiction... and read. And grow basil and parsley and tomatoes in the little strip of sunlight that plays across the patch of a yard in front of my apartment. In the winter, I write poetry and fiction, teach... and wait for spring... when I watch the skies for tornadoes

Interests

• writing
• literature
• reading
• literary theory
• literary criticism
• book reviews
• art
• native wildflowers
• aesthetics of process
• chess
• barroom pool...and tornadoes

Favorite Movies

• Duck Soup
• Casablanca
• Night on Earth
• Les Enfants du Paradis
• Le Grande Illusion
• Rashomon
• Seven Samari
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller... Nashville... or the last movie I've seen.

Favorite Music

• Bach: Art of the Fugue
• unaccompanied violin sonatas and partitas
• cello suites
• Bartok
• Coleman Hawkins
• Errol Garner
• Thelonius Monk
• Bob Marley
• Frank Sinatra... and on and on

Favorite Books

• Ulysses (Joyce)
• Remembrance of Things Past
• Zeno's Conscience
• Tales of Genji
• Goldbug Variations
• Blood Meridian
• Sutre
• The Knowledge of Man (Buber)
• Wallace Stevens
• Collected Poems
• Arendt: The Human Condition
• Don Quixote
• As I Lay Dying
• Victorian Holocausts
• The Leopard
• The Devils of Loudun
• ... too many to name